![]() ![]() ![]() Harsh words are spoken and the men almost come to blows. ![]() The first chapter begins in the McClellan Arms pub, and introduces us to Campbell, “the landscape painter” who is drunk and quarrelling with Waters, another artist, but who is English – this seems to be reason enough for Campbell to find him objectionable. ‘Either’ is perhaps misleading, for most of the painters are fishers in their spare time.” Her main characters, apart from Wimsey and the police, are primarily artists: in the first sentence of the novel Sayers reports that “ If one lives in Galloway, one either fishes or paints. ![]() Unlike Have His Carcase, in which the setting was invented for the plot, in Five Red Herrings the setting is entirely real, being set in south-west Scotland around Gatehouse-in-Fleet and Kirkcudbright, which Sayers knew well. It was written, as Sayers wrote to her publisher, Victor Gollancz, after complaints from some critics that Wimsey fell in love and talked “too discursively”: in Five Red Herrings, “no-one falls in love (except, perhaps, Campbell) and every sentence is necessary to the plot. ( Hodder e-book 2003, originally published 1931)Īlthough this book – one of the series of detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – was written after Strong Poison, this book does not feature Harriet Vane at all, nor is she mentioned. ![]()
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