The Five Red Herrings — Dorothy L. Sayers

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.