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  1. 2. Dez. 2014 · 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 Bertie Wooster at his most ...

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  2. 19. Nov. 2021 · Five Red Herrings - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

  3. 30. Okt. 2013 · "Five Red Herrings" (1931) follows "Strong Poison" (1931) in the Wimsey series and it is a relief to find that Harriet Vane 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.

    • Dorothy L Sayers
  4. The Five Red Herrings. During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder. The majestic landscape of the Scottish coast has attracted artists and fishermen for centuries. In the idyllic village of Kirkcudbright, every resident and visitor has two things in common: They either fish or paint (or do both ...

  5. In their Edgar-award winning book about the genre, A Catalogue of Crime (Harper & Row 1971, revised in 1989), Jacques Barzun and Wendell Taylor praise The Five Red Herrings as "a work that grows on rereading and remains in the mind as one of the richest, most colourful of her group studies. The Scottish setting, the artists in the colony, the ...

  6. "Five Red Herrings" (1931) follows "Strong Poison" (1931) in the Wimsey series and it is a relief to find that Harriet Vane 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.

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  7. 8. Juni 2012 · Five red herrings and a death that smelled like murder Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-06-08 20:14:02 Boxid IA139101 Boxid_2 CH115801 ...