Five Red Herrings Starring Ian Carmichael As Lord Peter Wimsey

Dorothy L Sayers

ISBN 10: 0563557508 ISBN 13: 9780563557500

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks, 2002

Synopsis

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, this Radio 4 dramatization was first broadcast as a weekly serial in 1978 and is set in a community of artists and fishermen in the south of Scotland. A body is found on rocks, and Lord Peter finds that there are six people with a motive for murder.

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From the Back Cover:

Lord Peter Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish art colony in this classic tale from Dorothy L. Sayers.

In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than the painter Sandy Campbell. When he is found dead at the foot of a cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him gone—especially six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony.

The inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth about Campbell's death. Piecing together the evidence, the aristocratic sleuth discovers that of the six suspected painters, five are red herrings, innocent of the crime. But just which one is the ingenious artist with a talent for murder?

About the Author:

Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0563557508
• ISBN 13: 9780563557500
• Binding: Audio Cassette