![]() ![]() A year later he proposed, and Harriet, outraged at being deceived into giving up her public honour, broke off the relationship.ĭuring the year that followed, Boyes suffered from repeated bouts of gastric illness, while Harriet had bought several poisons under assumed names to test a plot point of her novel then in progress. ![]() Professing to disapprove of marriage, he persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him against her principles and they led a Bohemian life in the London art community. Boyes was a novelist and essayist who wrote in support of atheism, anarchy, and free love. Mystery author Harriet Vane has been accused of the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes. The title is derived from a phrase in some variants of the ballad Lord Randall, where the title character was poisoned by his lover. But all the clues point to Harriet as the one who gave Philip Boyes the arsenic that killed him. If Lord Peter does not prove she is innocent, he will lose her before he even persuades her to accept his proposal of marriage. The immediate problem is that she is on trial for her life, charged with murdering her former lover. It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of police fiction. ![]()
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