Five Red Herrings

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Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
Doubling back to a Peter Wimsey book from earlier in the chronology. The one where Peter solves the murder of a painter in a small Scottish town.



I frankly find it astonishing that the woman who wrote Gaudy Night also wrote this. It's a long slog of tedious detail seasoned with train schedules. I had a hard time keeping the six murder suspects straight, and it didn't seem to really matter.



Saved from utter ignominy by two things: (1) Peter occasionally breaking into blank verse just because he can, and (2) the narrator of my audiobook doing six or seven different accents as appropriate, including a wonderfully impenetrable Scots.




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