Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.
Dorothy L. SayersAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: british
- Born: June 13, 1893
- Died: December 17, 1957
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