“Strong Poison” by Dorothy L. Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love. The woman he is in love with doesn’t belong to aristocracy, but this is not what bothers Lord Peter, and he doesn’t care what his family might say. The trouble is, she is suspected of poisoning her ex-lover, and the case is watertight. She is saved by a miracle: the jury fails to agree upon an apparently obvious verdict, but the second trial is to take place in a month. The miracle won’t happen twice.
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