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Five Red Herrings

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 7

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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 policière Suspense Fiction

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How, oh how I wish that Ian Carmichael could have narrated ALL the Peter Wimsey books! Though McDowell does an excellent Scottish accent, indeed so thick at times as to be tricky to understand the dialect, her high-pitched and humourless portrayal of Wimsey is difficult to bear with, rendering him flat, lacking in both self-awareness and wit. Also annoying is when she can’t keep the various characters’ voices straight, such that Parker from Scotland Yard ends up with a Scots brogue for a while, then a Galloway villager with a modified Cockney accent etc etc.
The D. L. Sayers stories depend so much upon the dry wry humour of Wimsey and a nuanced portrayal of his complex character … otherwise they lack deeper interest and can become somewhat tedious with long recitations of train schedules & details of police work. To have the whole series read by Ian Carmichael would have been a top notch, classic, well-worth-keeping box set production. A shame it never happened!!

Can’t keep voices straight!

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