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The Five Red Herrings
  

The Five Red Herrings (Hardcover)

de Dorothy L. Sayers (Author)
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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 suspicious elements -- particularly the medical evidence that proves he'd been dead nearly half a day, though eyewitnesses had seen him alive a scant hour earlier. And then there are the six prime suspects -- all of them artists, all of whom wished him dead. Five are red herrings, but one has created a masterpiece of murder that baffles everyone, including Lord Peter Wimsey.


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When an artist is found dead at the bottom of a cliff where he had been painting, a masterpiece in mystery arises, with six artists as suspects, five of them ""red herrings"" and one a murderer who baffles even Lord Peter Wimsey. Reprint. NYT.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 A love/hate book, Janv. 5 2000
Par Anna Peak (Philadelphia, PA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This book has more twists and turns of plot than five ordinary mysteries. Sayers first sets up her situation: one very unpopular artist and six other artists who hate his guts. Then the unpopular artist is found dead. Five of the others are red herrings; the sixth is a murderer. Enter Lord Peter and the police force. Half-way through the book the solution is presented to the reader, only to be blown out of the water when some tiny clue is found. So a new theory is constructed, and meets the same fate. As does the next, and the next, and the next....Some will put the book down permanently at theory 3. Others will be tortured and teased with unsatisfied interest--isn't that what a mystery is supposed to do?--and delighted with the way Sayers indirectly blasts overly-confident thinking in general. There are very few people who don't occasionally need to be reminded of the need to know a lot about something before judging it. This slipperiness is not the book's only potentially irritating characteristic, however; it also features train schedules and timetables. Fans of Freeman Wills Crofts will be in their element; others will loathe these parts of the book. I don't care for train schedules myself, in or out of a mystery, but for some reason--Sayers's skill, perhaps?--I did not find these annoying. As readers of Sayers expect, the style is, well, stylish, and Sayers does a beautiful job of putting her characters' accents on paper. And the solution is, of course, fair--no last gasp bits of information conviniently hitherto unmentioned.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Have you heard of a good book??!!, Nov. 11 2001
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If you want a good book, this would NOT be my choice in a million years.
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