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.
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 Wimsey has to figure out who done it and who the five red herrings are.
The first time it was published in the United States, its title was Suspicious Characters.
The Five Red Herrings was adapted for television in 1975, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.