The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey) - Dorothy L. SAYERS • BookLikes (ISBN:B00R1TIRXU)

The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey)

by: Dorothy L. Sayers (author)

Stranded in the Fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve after a car accident, Wimsey helps ring a nine-hour peal of bells overnight after Will Thoday, one of the ringers, is stricken by influenza. Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire, dies next morning and Wimsey hears how the Thorpe family has been blighted for 20 years by the unsolved theft of jewels from a house-guest by the butler, Deacon, and an accomplice, Cranton. Both men were imprisoned, but the jewels were never recovered.....

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Format: Kindle Edition

ASIN: B00R1TIRXU

Publish date: 2014-12-14

Pages no: 300

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Mystery, Detective, Historical Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime

Series: Lord Peter Wimsey (#11)

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Murder by Death rated it

6 years ago

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This was one of the few remaining Whimsey books I had left to read; not being English by birth, and ignorant of the art behind bell ringing, I'd naturally thought this was a mystery about tailors; you know, those that produce clothing. I was set straight a few of years ago, and became determined to...

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BrokenTune rated it

8 years ago

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Toll-toll-toll; and a pause; toll-toll-toll; and a pause; toll-toll-toll; the nine tailors, or teller-strokes, that mark the passing of a man. The year is dead; toll him out with twelve strokes more, one for every passing month. Then silence. Then, from the faint, sweet tubular chimes of the clock o...

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ELK's Library rated it

9 years ago

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I can't say anything to the accuracy of the information of change-ringing, but a lot of effort was clearly put in to research. Unfortunately, I really didn't find any of it all that interesting. The mystery was intriguing and I definitely enjoyed Wimsey's character more in this book than the first o...

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C. P. Lesley rated it

10 years ago

http://cplesley.booklikes.com C. P. Lesley 5.0

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This was always one of my favorite Wimseys. I was surprised (and a bit alarmed) to realize how much I had forgotten in the many years since I read it. It took me a disconcertingly long time to remember the crucial point, even though I recalled the final scenes. I reread it for the Dead Writers Socie...

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