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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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I like this series and have really enjoyed all the ones Robert Bathurst has narrated. When I ran out I wanted to continue. I have listened to Jane McDowell narrate other series and am not a fan, but thought I should try. It was dire. The monotone, the affected pronunciation, the awful accents - I couldn’t focus on the story and had to give up. So disappointing and I wish I could get my money back!

Please ask Robert Bathurst to record this

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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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Very good. I love the story construction. was worried if reader would be as good as Ian carmichael. different but just as enjoyable.

One of my favourite sayers

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This is a wonderful story but I found the reader seriously difficult to listen to - the most commonplace words are mispronounced and the emphasis and stress in many of the words and sentences is just odd!

Be prepared for truly awful Scottish Accents..

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This Dorothy L Sayers most babbling book, but somehow I feel all the tables and times comforting to listen to and it is a Lord Peter Wimsey novel which stand for guaranteed fun and wit.

At first I was reluctant to the reader but she came on me and grew better and better.

Actually I wanted to give the story a three but it is Dorothy and LPW and that is never a bad combination. And the ending is superb writing and sleuthing so a four it is.

I love Scottish accents

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