Review: Strong Poison

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'd rate it 3/5.

Also I'd venture to guess at the time this book was published it would have been a solid 4/5. It's a good detective story, slow but not dreadful. Slow, maybe because I'm reading it 33 years after it's publication. Well, there wasn't any way I could have read within a decade and change of it's publication, what with the minor issue of my being not born by then. Slow because Author brings forth the culmination of many a casual relationships into matrimony, what?

It doesn't take a great while to guess who might be the culprit, but even then one can't close the book, having guessed the culprit with sufficient certitude, since the all apparent happenings seem to protect him, in an absolute water-tight manner. The book is also about the methods the sleuth has to exercise to find out what might have happened when all the evidence is point to the contrary. That's where this becomes a little — mind you, only a little — chore.

I wouldn't call this a must read, but I would also say this about the book, that one wouldn't regret reading this. It's an amusing little book.

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