Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth.

But was it an accident - or murder? Six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony do not regret Campbell's death.

Five of them are red herrings.

Sending in my to someone from the UK 2023 birthday group.

Happy birthday 🥳

Thank you for this books and all the sweets 3vie. A Dorothy L Sayers book is a treat to receive.

Gosh, there was a lot about train timetables in this novel. I mean, crikey! I lost the plot with all that stuff tbh. I still have no clear idea about what the importance of the bicycle directed to London was...

If you removed a lot of that back and forth, there was an interesting plot in here struggling to get out. I enjoyed the characters and Whimsy's banter with them all. He was much more attractive as a personality in this novel than I've seen him in others. I also enjoyed the fact that the plot was set in Scotland, and Sayers had taken such care to get the geography right.

So not a great read, but it was alright on the whole.

Released at the Christmas meetup.

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Another Dorothy L Sayers to fuel my new addiction ;-) Caught at Old Gang meetup and another that I must promote up Mount TBR as Triggerfish also wants to read it.

Thank you