a red herring

something that takes people's attention away from the main subject being talked or written about About halfway through the book it looked as though the butler was the murderer, but that turned out to be a red herring.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Damijana	-	Slovene
Paulius	-	Lithuanian
Onyekachi	-	Western African, Igbo
Bhaskar	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada
Kallikrates	-	Ancient Greek
Sevan	-	Armenian