Dorothy L. Sayers

When an artist is found dead at the bottom of a cliff where he had been painting, a masterpiece in mystery arises, with six artists as suspects, five of them "red herrings" and one a murderer who baffles even Lord Peter Wimsey. Reprint. NYT.

5 Red Herrings

The Five Red Herrings

Melody Izard

Felt like a puzzle. A game. Not my favorite at all. Different solutions to a murder were proposed and recreated over and over and over.

Kate

What a slog! I found it almost impossible to keep all the characters straight and remember the pertinent details. I don’t even mind all the talk about train tables! But I do mind how often characters provide minute, chronological theories/timelines of the crime that are clearly going to be disproved! When I can’t even remember which suspect is which and what their alibis are!

Sonia Grgas

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Sheila

The seventh book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by writer and crime reviewer Barry Forshaw - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. Lord Peter Wimsey bent down over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the gnarled old hands. Then, with a quick jerk, he lifted the quiet figure. It came up all of a piece, stiff as a wooden doll . . . But how did the general die? Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for questioning? And which of the general's heirs, both members of the Bellona Club, is lying? 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James

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