The mistress of the Golden Age mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers paints a
perfect picture of murder in this classic tale in which Lord Peter
Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish artists' colony.
In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more
than Sandy Campbell. When the painter is found dead at the foot of
cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him
gone--especially six members of the close knit Galloway artists' colony.
The inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth
about Campbell's death. Piecing together the evidence, the aristocratic
sleuth discovers that of the six suspected painters, five are red
herrings, innocent of the crime. But just which one is the ingenious
artist with a talent for murder?