![]() ![]() When he starts to sniff out evidence of a cocaine ring connected to the murder, things become rather more dangerous than Lord Peter bargained for. When an advertising copywriter is murdered under suspicious circumstances, Lord Peter Wimsey must go undercover to solve the case by day, as a respected member of an advertising agency, and by night, as a wild bohemian. Unlike other Dorothy Sayers books, the mystery was done in the form of character sketches: every chapter focused on a single character, and the chapters were even named after the theme character, and the style of writing changes in many of them to reflect the person that Sayers is describing. ![]() ![]() Murder Must Advertise - Mad Men weren’t the first advertisers with dark secrets. The Five Red Herrings is a fine example of the genre. Five of them are Red Herrings, but one is a murderer. When a famous artist is found dead, and a painting done in his style used to stage the death as accidental, Lord Peter Wimsey must solve a murder with exactly six suspects – six local artists talented enough to have painted the fake, and with motive to kill the painter. Five Red Herrings - Painting can be a dangerous pastime. ![]()
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