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      The Five Red Herrings

      by Dorothy L. Sayers
      Published
      Jan 1931
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      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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      368
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      A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Book 8

      About This Book

      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 people did not regret Campbell's death ... five were red herrings. Set in the unusual background of an artists' colony in Galloway, in the south of Scotland, Five Red Herrings is one of the best of Dorothy L. Sayers' murder mystery novels which made her the leading writer in the detective fiction field.

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      Book 8
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      Suspense

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      Amateur Sleuth Mystery

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