The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

Paperback, 397 pages

English language

Published Aug. 30, 2004 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.

ISBN:
978-0-606-31179-3
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3 stars (13 reviews)

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there.

The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.

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4 stars

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‘See here,’ said Mr Blundell, ‘it doesn’t seem reasonable to me. This Paul Taylor or Tailor …

reviewed The nine tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers (An HBJ modern classic)

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3 stars

Sayers’ research on bell patterns and civil water engineering sometimes overwhelms the plot. And the reverence for small town rectors occasionally drags on. But the actual mystery is crafty, and the melancholy ambience makes a fitting background for Wimsey and Bunter’s visit to the Fens.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • England
  • Private investigators
  • Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)