The Five Red Herrings

The Five Red Herrings (1931), also published as Suspicious Characters, is Sayers's most intricate puzzle-mystery. In the artists' colony of Kirkcudbright, a painter is found dead below a cliff. Six fellow artists had reason to want him dead, but one of them has an unbreakable alibi — or does he? Wimsey must reconstruct the murderer's timetable down to the minute using Scottish railway schedules.