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"Strychnine in the Soup" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1932 in Strand Magazine. It also appears in the collections Mulliner Nights and Wodehouse on Crime.^[1] A BBC TV adaptation of the story aired on 9 April 1976 starring John Alderton as Cyril Mulliner and Pauline Collins as Amelia Bassett.^[2]

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Cyril Mulliner, an interior decoration with a passion for mystery stories, finds a handful of his flesh being twisted by the lovely Amelia Bassett at a showing of The Grey Vampire and the two fall instantly in love with each other. Fate, however, has thrown Amelia Bassett's mother, a well-known big game hunter and explorer who objects to an interior decorator as a son-in-law, preferring that Amelia marry Lester Mapledurham, another well-known big game hunter and explorer. The plot twists and turns (and thickens) but Cyril wins Amelia in the end thanks to a wandering copy of the new Inspector Mould mystery, Strychnine in the Soup.

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v • d • e Mr. Mulliner Best Seller • The Bishop's Move • Came the Dawn • Honeysuckle Cottage • Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo • A Slice of Life • The Smile that Wins • Strychnine in the Soup • The Truth About George