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Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings

  • 1975
  • Ended
  • 1 season

Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.

Latest: Season 1 · 1975

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  1. E1. Part 1

    Jul 23, 1975

    Wimsey and his butler, Bunter arrive at the Galloway Hills of Scotland for a quiet holiday. Wimsey intends to spend his time fishing, and Bunter that of painting. However they discover a corpse and they turn to investigating this mysterious death.

  2. E2. Part 2

    Jul 30, 1975 · 50m

    An artist is discovered dead at the bottom of a cliff, the police think it might be an accident, but Wimsey thinks otherwise, it is a murder.

  3. E3. Part 3

    Aug 6, 1975

    Six suspects have been identified. However Wimsey knows only one committed the murder. he sets out to eliminate the "Five Red Herrings".

  4. E4. Part 4

    Aug 13, 1975

    Wimsey reconstructs the murder to demonstrate how the crime was committed. The murderer is thereby forced to confess and brings the case to a final conclusion.