Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey
A European Literature, Detective, Crime book. There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass...
The body was on the pointed rocks alongside the stream. The artist might have fallen from the cliff where he was painting, but there are too many suspicious elements — particularly the medical evidence that proves he'd been dead nearly half a day, though eyewitnesses had seen him alive a scant hour earlier. And then there are the six prime suspects — all of them artists, all of whom wished him dead. Five are red herrings, but one has created a masterpiece of murder.Title changed for early US Editions to SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS but eventually the US publishers used the UK title.
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I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work. Dorothy L. Sayers, Five Red Herrings // The fisherman-painter has the best of the bargain as far as the weather goes, for the weather that is too bright for the trout deluges his hills and his sea with floods of radiant colour; the rain that interrupts picture-making puts water into the rivers and the lochs and sends him hopefully forth with rod and creel; while on cold dull days, when there is neither purple on the hills nor fly on the river, he can join a friendly party in a cosy bar and exchange information about Cardinals and March Browns, and practise making intricate knots in gut. Dorothy... Still, it doesnt do to murder people, however offensive they may be. Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings //
I have to confess I got an awful shock when Inspector Parker made his brief appearance in this book its no longer Gabriel Woolf! I knew it was coming, but gah, I hate the transition every time. And it doesnt really help that this might be my least favourite of the mysteries: in the original book, it relies on suppressing information... Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in Galloway, where people either fish or paint and some do both. The artistic centre of Galloway is Kirkcudbright and there are many artists in the area. One evening there is an argument between a Scottish painter, called Campbell, and an English artist, named Waters. However, this was not unusual Campbell... Five Red Herrings was probably my least favourite of the Wimsey books, and I found it rather infuriating as a radioplay, too. One entire episode was given over to people all expounding wrong theories about the murderer -- theories which I knew to be wrong. The end of the episode, where Peter says they're all wrong, is the highlight...
