The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

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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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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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reviewed The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers

Surprisingly great, detailed as if written by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

It is a bit funny when it comes to British self-congratulation, but it's quite amazing.

I'm quite tempted to find some other works by Dorothy L. Sayers. For sure significantly better than Christie's books, but that's not a high bar.

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Subjects

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