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... Night for Harriet.
The only book I really don't like and have never been able to re-read without putting down is Five Red Herrings. It's clever, but just doesn't do anything for me.
I'm listening to A Presumption of Death now and although it's only based on Sayers' ideas, I'm ... ... on purpose. Sometimes it's best not to know what the Nac Mac Feegle are saying. ;-)
There's a lot of Scots in The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers, and I remember my Dad saying something similar about how it made for difficult reading. ... The Nine Tailors might be my favorite Sayers besides Gaudy Night. The only one I have trouble re-reading is Five Red Herrings - don't know why because the story is good. Can't be because Harriet's not there because she's not there in quite a few books... I get about 100 pages in ... ... where the numbers include cliches, rehashed scripts, and none of the life or humour of the original. Dire.
21. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
It's far from her best--how could it be the best when it contains no Harriet Vane and no Dowager Duchess, and very little ... ... are better organized than most book stores! For under $18 I picked up:
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Night by Elie Wiesel
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
The Mating Seas ... ...
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith fiction
The Saint and Mr. Teal by Leslie Charteris mystery
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers mystery
Norman Rockwell Illustrator by Arthur L. Guptill nonfiction
Jingo by Terry Pratchett fantasy
To Ride Hell’s Chasm ... ... first act of rebellion is keeping a journal; her second is freeing a charming balloonist imprisoned by the House.
97. The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
An veritable goldmine of train time-tables.
98. A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez-Brignoli
Guatema ... ... by Ian Rankin
And from the secondhand library store earlier in the week:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Have his Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
Nora, Nora by Anne Rivers Siddons
Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara E ... ... hasn't listed as a favourite. A pity, because it's great fun.
Extra clues:
Gorbals Trilogy by Ralph Glasser
The five red herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
So at least you know which country we're in! Not really a clue, but it might jog some minds: the end of the 1st movement of ... Go katylit! I just finished The Five Red Herrings. Won't be starting Have His Carcase until Sept., so that gives me a chance to go after my TBR pile.
Am presently reading The Living Reed by Pearl S. Buck, Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker (I don't golf, I just love Bob Hope), and Ji ... In numerical order:
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr Seuss
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Judging from your titles, I assume you mean visual arts?
Fiction:
Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L. Sayers
Diana and Persis, by Louisa May Alcott
The Portrait, by Iain Pears
From London Far, by Michael Innes
Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
Non-fiction:
Ess ... From Fish to Philosopher - Homer William Smith
The Mystery of Swordfish Reef - Arthur W. Upfield
Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers
Paris Trout - Pete Dexter
Illuminatus!, Part III: Leviathan - Robert Anton Wilson A Fish called Wanda by John Cleese
The Fish who could Wish by John Bush
A Fish Dinner in Memison by E. R. Eddison
Five Red Herrings by Agatha Christie
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
... hakespeare
Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
... series is Whose Body? followed by:
Clouds of Witness
Unnatural Death
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
The FIve Red Herrings
Murder must Advertise
The Nine Tailors
Strone Poison
Have His Carcase
Gaudy Night
Busman's Honeymoon
There is also an enjoyable ... ... by Margery Allingham concerns a murder at an art gallery, and the sale of a famous painter's works after his death.
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers, in which a painter is murdered, and most of the suspects are artists too.
Under the hammer by John Mortimer, a mystery set ... ... 1928
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 1928
The Documents in the Case 1930
Strong Poison 1930
Five Red Herrings 1931
Have His Carcase 1932
Hangman's Holiday 1933
(short stories)
Murder Must Advertise 1933
The Nine Tailors 1934
Gaudy Night ... ... )
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) SS
Strong Poison (1930)
The Five Red Herrings (1931)
APA: Suspicious Characters (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night ... ... Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
Seven Women : Portraits from the American Radical Traditi ... RED Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
YELLOW The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson
PURPLE Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
BLUE The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
GREEN Prime Green by Robert Stone
BLACK Black Boy by Richard Wright
WHITE The Wh ... 100 >/ 102 >
I think I understand the question now. A copy of The five red herrings, (1931), entered from the National Library of Scotland has Fleming (formerly Sayers) as author.
The MARC record says this is an unconverted catalog record, so though this does not quite fit in with the ...
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