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Five Red Herrings

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 7

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Five Red Herrings

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. His eighth appearance takes him to an artists' colony (based on a real one) in Scotland during the 1920s.

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.

©1931 Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2015 Hachette Audio Crime Fiction

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"She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller." (Minette Walters)
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Lots of twists and much tabulation of timetables required! I've read the book and knew who the murderer was but even so I couldn't work out how Lord Peter came to the conclusion until the grand reveal. Jane McDowell rather strangles the Scots accents, but it (mostly) doesn't detract from the pleasure of listening. I'm getting used to her unusual reading style by now, and she at least pronounces Kirkcudbright properly!

Great story shame about the accents!

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ignore tiresome diatribes about bad narration. almost put me off buying. would've been my loss

Excellent Book. Excellent narration

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I love Peter Wimsey and I usually love this narrator. However I could not manage this due to the horrific attempts at accents which made this difficult to listen to (really awful when the book is set in Scotland!).

Please don't do Scottish accents!

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An excellent story but the appalling attempts at Scottish accents spoiled it for me. She was otherwise ok.

Good story, terrible accents

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there are far to many suspects in this tale, too complicated for me x

too many suspects

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