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In Search of Turkish Delight March 25, 2025

In a final scene of ­Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong ­Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity of Turkish delight in the parlor of Lord ­Peter Wimsey, Sayers’s amateur-­sleuth aristocrat. Wimsey, in the course of his gotcha monologue, says, “Th...