# Strong Poison — Character guide

> Key figures in Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers.

- [Lord Peter Wimsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/lord_peter_wimsey.md): Lord Peter Wimsey moves easily through drawing rooms and vicarages alike, his languid wit masking a relentless investigative mind. What begins as a professional puzzle becomes deeply personal once he meets Harriet Vane i
- [Harriet Vane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/harriet_vane.md): Harriet Vane stands accused not only of murder but of moral impropriety, her bohemian love affair with Philip Boyes laid bare for a disapproving jury. A self-made woman of thirty-nine who built an independent life throug
- [Miss Climpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/miss_climpson.md): Miss Climpson runs a typing bureau that is not quite a typing bureau, placing intelligent women in positions where their observations prove invaluable. Her ability to deduce a stranger's entire history from a silver fram
- [Mr. Norman Urquhart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mr_norman_urquhart.md): Mr. Norman Urquhart is the kind of man who advises against libel actions and consults doctors before consulting police, a solicitor whose caution may conceal more than it reveals. When suspicion first surfaces about his 
- [Miss Murchison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/miss_murchison.md): Miss Murchison spent twelve years in a financier's office before the juggler's eggs all smashed and she found herself jobless at thirty-seven. Her advertisement brought her to Miss Climpson's bureau and, eventually, to L
- [Philip Boyes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/philip_boyes.md): Philip Boyes wrote five novels and many essays advocating doctrines the prosecution calls immoral and seditious, and he conducted his private life accordingly. He pursued Harriet Vane with unceasing importunities until s
- [Bunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/bunter.md): Bunter moves through Wimsey's world with the quiet competence of a man who has seen his employer through shell-shock, scandal, and the Bellona Club affair, and who now watches him fall for a woman on trial for murder. Wh
- [Miss Booth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/miss_booth.md): Witness and acquaintance connected to the Boyes case.
- [Chief Inspector Parker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/chief_inspector_parker.md): Parker is the policeman who made a mistake at the start of the Boyes case, a fact that haunts his standing with Wimsey's family even as his competence earns quiet praise. He is also the man courting Lady Mary, which sets
- [Lady Mary Wimsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/lady_mary_wimsey.md): Lord Peter's sister, who arrives for the Christmas holiday.
- [Mrs. Wrayburn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mrs_wrayburn.md): A woman involved in the spiritualist circles connected to the case.
- [Gerald de Wimsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/gerald_de_wimsey.md): Lord Peter's elder brother, the Duke of Denver.
- [Mr. Pond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mr_pond.md): A solicitor or legal figure involved in the case.
- [Hannah Westlock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/hannah_westlock.md): A young woman connected to the spiritualist circle.
- [Mr. Bill Rumm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mr_bill_rumm.md): A man with knowledge of the poison used in the murder.
- [Freddy Arbuthnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/freddy_arbuthnot.md): A friend of Lord Peter's, often involved in social matters.
- [Mr. Ryland Vaughan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mr_ryland_vaughan.md): A poet and acquaintance of Philip Boyes.
- [Sir Impey Biggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/sir_impey_biggs.md): Harriet Vane's defense barrister at her trial.
- [Miss Marjorie Phelps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/miss_marjorie_phelps.md): A friend of Harriet Vane's from the literary world.
- [Sylvia Marriott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/sylvia_marriott.md): A friend or acquaintance of Harriet Vane.
- [Eiluned Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/eiluned_price.md): A young woman involved in the spiritualist circle.
- [Mr. Crofts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/mr_crofts.md): A chemist or pharmacist involved in the poison inquiry.
- [Nurse Williams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/strong_poison_se/characters/nurse_williams.md): A nurse attending to a character during the story.

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