The Five Red Herrings are among the six suspects in the murder of an artist in the village of
Kirkcudbright,
Scotland, in this 1931 novel by
Dorothy L. Sayers;
Ian Carmichael played
Lord Peter Wimsey in the movie based on the book. (The first time it was published in the U.S., its title was
Suspicious Characters.)
Whoever killed Campbell painted a landscape in his style to make it look like he died later than he did, so it had to be one of the six other artists in the village, and he had fought with all of them. Now Lord Peter has to figure out who done it and who the five red herrings are.
