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echo: mystery
to: FRED RUNK
from: JAN MURPHY
date: 1997-11-07 08:33:00
subject: Re: Golden Agers

 >
 >  JM> Strong Poison is indeed a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery.
...
 > Is that the one where [Harriet Vane]'s accused of murder?  If so, then
 > I've seen the
 > MYSTERY! production of it, but I never read the book.  Perhaps
 > that's why I
 > didn't remember it at first. Stuff on TV tends to be ephemeral.
 
Yes.  By all means, read the book.  The MYSTERY! productions of Strong Poison 
was good, the HAVE HIS CARCASE better, and the GAUDY NIGHT positively 
dreadful.  I liked Petherbridge and Walter's performances but even the finest 
adaptation can't capture all the nuances of the book.
 
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