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"Beyond question one of the most skillful mystery writers . . . offers a first rate piece of work. . . . Lord Peter Wimsey [is] at his amusing best. . . . The book is a treat" (The New York Times). 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 2 things in common: They either fish or paint (or do both), and they all hate Sandy Campbell. Though a fair painter, he is a rotten human being, and cannot enter a pub without raising the blood pressure of everybody there. No one weeps when he dies.
Campbell's body is found at the bottom of a steep hill, and his easel stands at the top, suggesting that he took a tumble while painting. But something about the death doesn't sit right with gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. No one in Kirkcudbright liked Campbell, and 6 hated him enough to become suspects; 5 are innocent, and the other is the perpetrator of the most ingenious murder Lord Peter has ever encountered.
The Five Red Herrings is the 7th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.
(33) The 7th in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. I feel like it might be a highly regarded installment but for me, it was not the most enjoyable. I think as I am getting older, I do not have the patience to look at maps (especially in a Kindle) and reconstruct complicated events that might require me to make notes. That is not my idea of enjoyment, and I don't have the type of mind that can hold all the picayune facts straight like I could in my 20's and 30's. Train schedules, distances, times, which town came before or after which town on the train line, how many tickets and who came aboard where, and with or without a bike. I couldn't follow so I knew I would never figure it out. Sad, but true for me.
I also had trouble keeping all the artists straight and reading the phonetic renderings of the Scottish burr. I like the idea of a limited group of suspects, and figuring out who could have forged the painting, and I liked the end with the re-enactment. But by that time I am afraid I had lost patience and was wanting to be done. I missed having more details regarding Wimsey's friends and relations - he did not seem like much of a character in this one. Instead all the policemen had theories, and I didn't much care for them, nor remember who was who. Just me? I don't know.
Anyway, my least favorite Lord Peter Wimsey thus far. I will keep reading the series. It is not as many books as Rendell's seemingly endless Wexford mysteries, so I will probably finish, but I am getting a little tired of them. ( )
There are 6 suspects for the murder, so we have 5 red herrings! Peter is enjoying having the multiple lines to examine and alibis to get. I wasn't invested in knowing which line was the correct one. ( )
Two stars because it's Lord Peter, but unfortunately as others have noted, it doesn't hold a candle to the other books featuring this much-loved sleuth! Go to Gaudy Night for real heart. Or the short stories for intriguing puzzles. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To my friend Joe Dignam, kindliest of landlords
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
If one lives in Galloway, one either fishes or paints.
[Foreword] Dear Joe, Here at last is your book about Gatehouse and Kirkcudbright.
[Afterword] The year 1920 is the generally accepted dawn of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
(Here Lord Peter Wimsey told the Sergeant what he was to look for and why, but as the intelligent reader will readily supply these details for himself, they are omitted from this page.)
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
They brought it in manslaughter, with a strong recommendation to mercy, on the ground that Campbell was undoubtedly looking for trouble, and the beard of Samson was not sacrificed altogether in vain.
[Foreword] Give my love to everybody, not forgetting Felix, and tell Mrs. Dignam that we shall come back next summer to eat some more potato-scones at the Anwoth.
[Afterword] Although her career as a detective novelist spanned a mere fourteen years--from 'Whose Body?' (1923) to 'Busman's Honeymoon (1937)--she continued until her premature death to contribute to the promotion and acceptance of the literary from with which her name is forever linked.
"Beyond question one of the most skillful mystery writers . . . offers a first rate piece of work. . . . Lord Peter Wimsey [is] at his amusing best. . . . The book is a treat" (The New York Times). 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 2 things in common: They either fish or paint (or do both), and they all hate Sandy Campbell. Though a fair painter, he is a rotten human being, and cannot enter a pub without raising the blood pressure of everybody there. No one weeps when he dies.
Campbell's body is found at the bottom of a steep hill, and his easel stands at the top, suggesting that he took a tumble while painting. But something about the death doesn't sit right with gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. No one in Kirkcudbright liked Campbell, and 6 hated him enough to become suspects; 5 are innocent, and the other is the perpetrator of the most ingenious murder Lord Peter has ever encountered.
The Five Red Herrings is the 7th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.
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