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l1nds 's review for:
Five Red Herrings
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Well this a tricky one to review! It is my least favourite the series and technically it should only get 3 stars, but the ending was so much fun (chief constable playing corpse! Wimsey legging it from that one train through the station masters garden! The bicycle hitching a lift with the car!) that it absolutely earned an extra star. Honourable mention to the scene with the Inspector trying to get a handle on Alcock's name, I genuinely couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes!
However. I never want to read another word about bicycles or the finer points of 1930s train timetables in the Scottish Borders. Blimey those chapters were interminable and interchangeable! And *that* passage, where Wimsey tells the police what to look for and we are left in the dark is the most frustrating thing I've ever read. Yes I guessed correctly (*smug face*), but I didn't find out for a good 300 pages and it bothered me the whole time!
So in all it was a mixed bag. It's very cleverly done, and extremely funny in places, but there's so much repetition and not nearly enough Wimsey. I'll have to hurry on to the next instalment because this didn't really feel like a Wimsey book at all.
However. I never want to read another word about bicycles or the finer points of 1930s train timetables in the Scottish Borders. Blimey those chapters were interminable and interchangeable! And *that* passage, where Wimsey tells the police what to look for and we are left in the dark is the most frustrating thing I've ever read. Yes I guessed correctly (*smug face*), but I didn't find out for a good 300 pages and it bothered me the whole time!
So in all it was a mixed bag. It's very cleverly done, and extremely funny in places, but there's so much repetition and not nearly enough Wimsey. I'll have to hurry on to the next instalment because this didn't really feel like a Wimsey book at all.