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Five Red Herrings

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 7

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Five Red Herrings

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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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

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"She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller." (Minette Walters)
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Dreadful attempt at Scottish accents by the narrator ruined this book! - I love Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter but had to give up after the first 4 chapters as couldn’t stand it!

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Jane McDowell's faux Scottish accents are unbearable; despite my interest in the story itself, I could not listen to this. Very grateful for audible's returns policy.

Intolerable phoney Scots accents

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