Strong Poison (1930)
Blurb:
My review:
Unquestionably one of Sayers’ best. Lord Peter, despite self-doubt and self-analysis, proves Harriet Vane, with whom he has fallen in love, innocent of the charge of poisoning her egregious lover with arsenic, despite the manifest impossibility of anyone else having done it. The storytelling is witty and entertaining throughout, with excellent thumbnail sketches, including debunkings of Bohemia and spiritualism, and Miss Climpson is as splendid as ever. The murderer, villainous lawyer cousin, is known from early on, as is his motive: flummery with will to conceal embezzlement. What remains concealed until the end is the utterly brilliant method which ranks with the best of R. Austin Freeman's.