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eastofthesunwestofthemoon 's review for:
The Five Red Herrings
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3 1/2 stars. This is not my favorite of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by any means, one reason being that all the verbiage rendered in dialect wears me down after a few pages. I also tended to get the suspects somewhat confused until later in the book, because they're not really described early on, just named. Wimsey is on point and his usual clever self, but Bunter and Parker make only cameo appearances here, and I miss them. Still, as usual in a Sayers novel, there are tiny gems of literary allusion and tongue-in-cheek witticisms that are delightful to uncover, and the mystery is well-constructed. One very sour note - the map at the beginning of my edition is largely unreadable even using a magnifying glass. I could only make out the largest labels. Why did they bother?