Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Can't say why I have less complaints about this one than the other Sayers I've read, although it also isn't as interesting or complex as [b:Gaudy Night|93575|Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)|Dorothy L. Sayers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388197565l/93575.SY75.jpg|341789]. Reading it on paper, maybe. Sayers still managed to slip some antisemitism in (of the model minority sort, this time), and I shudder to think what a "beastly Styrian peasant" is.
OK, I took advantage of a quick internet search, this is anti-Austrian bias for a change.
There are a lot of spinsters in this: typists, artists, violinists, tarot-readers, etc, almost all of them described as "masculine" in some way, and of course I am headcanoning them all as lesbians with wild social lives that the other characters have no idea about. Murchison in particular I would take on a date.