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An extremely entertaining and gripping golden age mystery, written in the form of documents connected with a grisly poisoning case and with a strong scientific element (for which reason Sayers brought in Robert Eustace as her collaborator). This could be at risk of being dry and incomprehensible, but Sayers is far too good and skilled a writer to let this happen - there is no lack of narrative drive or intrigue as we leap between documents, and the science is remarkably well explained and integr
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I started reading this book as I thought it would be a good introduction to Dorothy L. Sayers' work without reading any of her LPW books. The story, written from the perspective of letters being presented as evidence in court in support of a son trying to prove his father was murdered by his scheming wife and her lover rather than having died of an accidental poisoning, was gripping. Sayers has the ability of changing her language to add flavour to her characters when telling the story from thei
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