There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
An edition of Strong Poison
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Strong Poison (A Lord Peter Wimsey Msytery)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet Vane. Harriet is introduced as she stands in the dock on trial for murder. Lord Peter immediately determines that she is innocent and sets out to prove it - falling in love with her in the process.
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Strong Poison (A Lord Peter Wimsey Msytery)
December 1993, Perennial
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0060923903 9780060923907
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Strong Poison (A Lord Peter Wimsey Msytery)
December 1993, Perennial
Paperback
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0060923903 9780060923907
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Starkes Gift: [Roman] = Strong poison
1980, Wunderlich
in German
- Erste vollst. dt. Ausg. in neuer U bersetzung, 2. Aufl.
3805203225 9783805203227
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