Dorothy L. Sayers put a lot of effort into "The Five Red Herrings." First, if the Foreword is to be believed, she's reproduced the areas of Gatehouse and Kirkcudbright (places, trains, landscapes) in tremendous detail. Then, there are the suspects. All six of them. Each with their own stories, tracking them down, and their alibis. Ditto, the trains. My goodness, the trains. Almost all of the tracking and alibis revolve around the trains and she provides all the details about their movement. Plus, she's given just about everyone a different accent (very humorous at times). And, don't forget all the information on painting and fishing. It's extremely true to life and interesting. Unfortunately, all of that adds up to the reason I dropped my rating by one star to a "mere" Very Good 4 stars out of 5: there's so much extraneous material that you just give up trying to figure out what's going on and merely ride along as an observer. Specifically, there's just no way that I could keep track of the stories of six different possible perpetrators and their movements across all those trains and landscape. But, I'll admit that even though I couldn't keep track of everything, the mystery, itself, and how Wimsey solves it are excellent. Highly recommended.The novels in the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries are:1.