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 member of the close knit Galloway artists' colony do not regret Campbell's death.
Five of them are red herrings.
This is a proper mystery story, all the information is laid out for the reader to follow the logic in solving the crime (to a pedantic extent sometimes) , you will need to take notes but if you do you should arrive at the correct conclusion the same time as the books characters.
The book has been deliberately written in this fashion and as such can be repetitive and lags. There is also this supremely annoying inclusion on page 21.
(Here Lord Peter Wimsey told the Sergeant what he was to look for and why, but as the intelligent reader will readily supply these details himself, they are omitted from this page).
The direct appeal to the vanity of the reader is , I think ,a bit unnecessary.
So this is a bit slow with Wimsey is a lot more serious in this book than others in the series but if you like jigsaw puzzles it will have an appeal.
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