Volume 6 of 11 · Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries

Five Red Herrings

Name: Five Red Herrings
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

First published 1931

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The Five Red Herrings is a 1931 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her sixth featuring the fictional gentleman detective named Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States it was published in the same year under the title Suspicious Characters. The novel follows Lord Peter's efforts to solve the mystery of a Scottish painter who is found dead next to a canvas painted in his style by another artist, leading suspicion to fall on six talented artists in the area who had disputes with the dead man. Lord Peter realizes that one of the six artists is the criminal, while the other five are red herrings.

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