Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers

Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, #8)

by Dorothy L Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey's fishing holiday is interrupted in Dorothy L Sayers' classic crime novel, introduced by writer and reviewer Barry Forshaw - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries.

'One of the best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth.

But was it an accident - or murder? Six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony do not regret Campbell's death.

Five of them are red herrings.

'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James

Reviewed by jamiereadthis on

3 of 5 stars

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Oof. Good stuff here, but suffers overmuch from: timetables, dialect (paragraphs of near indecipherable text), and lack of the Cattery. Onto the next.

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