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The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: July 1, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Oct 13, 2018 BrokenTune rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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In the meantime, a constable had rounded up the undertaker, who arrived in great excitement, swallowing the last fragments of his tea. A slight further delay was caused by its occurring to somebody that the Fiscal should be notified. The Fiscal, fortunately enough, happened to be in the town, and joined the party, explaining to Wimsey as they drove along to the mortuary that it was the most painful case he had handled in the whole of his experience, and that he had been much struck by the superi ...more

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Jun 11, 2019 Doris rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, reread, z-2019-challenge

Not my favorite of Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books. There's nowhere near enough of Bunter, and there's far too much Scottish dialect. That she was including the dialect solely to torment her readers is borne out by the fact that she also saw fit to assign a lisp to one character.

As to the mystery itself, I found it far too convoluted and had difficulty keeping track of the suspects. ...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Leslie rated it really liked it

Shelves: mysteries

2020 reread via audiobook narrated by Patrick Malahide:
I missed Ian Carmichael's narration but Malahide did a great job with the Scots accents. ...more

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Oct 06, 2017 John Frankham rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

Dorothy Sayers is brilliant but annoying. This entertaining story, based in the western lowlands of Scotland, is so full of railway timetables, lines with multiple stations, roads, cars, bicycles, with vital journey timings, that the charm of the characters, the locations, and the writing, is somewhat diminished. But still a good read!

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'The body was on the pointed rocks alongside the stream. The artist might have fallen from the cliff where he was painting, but there are too many sus ...more

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