023/058: Five Red Herrings — Dorothy Sayers

2023/058: Five Red Herrings — Dorothy Sayers

The road from Kirkcudbright to Newton Stewart is of a varied loveliness hard to surpass, and with a sky full of bright sun and rolling cloud-banks, hedges filled with flowers, a well-made road, a lively engine and the prospect of a good corpse at the end of it, Lord Peter’s cup of happiness was full. He was a man who loved simple pleasures. [opening paragraph]

I had a vague notion that I'd read all Sayers' Lord Peter novels, but apparently not! This one was not an unalloyed delight, since much of the plot revolves around railway timetables. In Scotland, in the 1920s.( Read more... )