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Work InformationFive Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers (1931)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Had forgotten that five full explanations other than the correct were offered. (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. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: "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). No library descriptions found. |
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