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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Okay If you enjoy working out timetables and poring over train schedulesBy ealovittOne of the most famous detectives of the British Golden Age of Mystery is not a policeman, but the brother of the (fictitious) , Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey. He is wealthy enough to do what he wants with his life, and has devoted himself to oenology, bibliophily, and criminology, i.e. wine, antiquarian books, and murderers."Five Red Herrings" (1931) follows "" (1931) in the Wimsey series and it is a relief to find that is absent from this volume, since I have taken a strong dislike to her, but that's about the only positive thing I have to say...Okay, that's an exaggeration. The Scottish scenery is described beautifully, as you might expect in a mystery about a colony of painters.One of the painters, Sandy Campbell, a bellicose drunkard appears to have fallen off of a cliff and drowned while out painting, but Lord Peter soon determines that the man was murdered. Whoever murdered him also painted the picture that was found at the crime scene, and was clever enough to paint it in the deceased painter's style. That immediately narrows the suspect list down to six other artists in the area, all of whom had a grudge against the surly Campbell.Lord Peter instantly suspects the painters with the strongest alibis, and he and the police set out to eliminate the 'five red herrings' of the title and unmask Campbell's murderer. Unfortunately, this involves long, boring stretches of sorting through train timetables and figuring out how each of the subjects could get from Point A to Point B without being spotted. Naturally, all of the subjects seem to be lying about something.If you enjoy working out timetables and poring over train schedules, "Five Red Herrings" is a fascinating mystery. However, I don't really read Dorothy Sayers' mysteries for the plots, but for the life she breathes into her characters. Lord Peter is a real human being with many flaws, including a tendency to revert to at his most vacuous. But I think Wimsey (in spite of being born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth) is the most lovable of all the great British Golden Age Detectives.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. If I Never Read Another Railroad Time Table Again....By illiandanticDorothy L. Sayers put a lot of effort into "The Five Red Herrings." First, if the Foreword is to be believed, she's reproduced the areas of Gatehouse and (places, trains, landscapes) in tremendous detail. Then, there are the suspects. All six of them. Each with their own stories, tracking them down, and their alibis. Ditto, the trains. My goodness, the trains. Almost all of the tracking and alibis revolve around the trains and she provides all the details about their movement. Plus, she's given just about everyone a different accent (very humorous at times). And, don't forget all the information on painting and fishing. It's extremely true to life and interesting. Unfortunately, all of that adds up to the reason I dropped my rating by one star to a "mere" Very Good 4 stars out of 5: there's so much extraneous material that you just give up trying to figure out what's going on and merely ride along as an observer. Specifically, there's just no way that I could keep track of the stories of six different possible perpetrators and their movements across all those trains and landscape. But, I'll admit that even though I couldn't keep track of everything, the mystery, itself, and how Wimsey solves it are excellent. Highly recommended.The novels in the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries are:1. Whose Body?2. Clouds of Witness3. Unnatural Death4. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 5)5. Strong Poison (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 6)6. The Five Red Herrings (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 7)7. (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 8)8. (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 10)9. The Nine Tailors (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 11)10. (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 12)11. Busman's Honeymoon (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, 13)Note: my numbering differs from 's because they include collections of short stories whereas my list is just of novels. Also, I can only include 10 links in the review, so the 11th Wimsey book is just a title.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. BORING!!!By KATHERINE DONOVAN-SHERPABORING BORING BORING!!!I never thought I would write this about a Dorothy Sayers's mystery. But this one was utterly unintelligible. There were 6 suspects. I never did figure out who was who. They all were pretty much identical. As a result I was disinterested in all of them and really didn't care . I was so bored that I just jumped to the last couple of chapters (after forcing myself through the first 2/3 of the book, thinking, "This HAS to get better"), and even the ending was quite dull.One thing that didn't help was that there were only 3 females in the whole book, and each only appeared for 1 or 2 pages.No strong characterizations. No plot. No story. Don't bother.

Dorothy L. Sayers paints a perfect picture of murder in this classic mystery—back in print and now available in trade paperback—in which Sir Peter Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish artists' colony.In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than Sandy Campbell. When the painter is found dead at the foot of cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him gone—especially six members of the close knit Galloway artists' colony.The inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth about Campbell's death. Piecing together the evidence, the aristocratic sleuth discovers that of the six suspected painters, five are red herrings, innocent of the crime. But just which one is the ingenious artist with a talent for murder?

She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit. -- P. D. James Sayers is one of the best detective story writers. -- E. C. Bentley Daily Telegraph I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail. -- Ruth Rendell She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller. -- Minette WaltersFrom the Back CoverLord Peter Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish art colony in this classic tale from Dorothy L. Sayers.In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than the painter Sandy Campbell. When he is found dead at the foot of a cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him gone—especially six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony.The inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth about Campbell's death. Piecing together the evidence, the aristocratic sleuth discovers that of the six suspected painters, five are red herrings, innocent of the crime. But just which one is the ingenious artist with a talent for murder?About the AuthorDorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

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