The Nine Tailors

Written by Dorothy L. Sayers

Church bells toll for an unknown dead man in a quiet fen-country parish.

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416 pages· 108,924 words· 910L· AR 5.9 · 17 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

Stranded in a remote East Anglian village over New Year, Lord Peter Wimsey helps ring the church bells. Months later an unidentified body turns up in another man's grave, and Wimsey returns to untangle a puzzle of stolen emeralds, bell-ringing and the floodwaters of the fens.

From the publisher

The nine tellerstokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases. Steeped in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat fen-country of East Anglia, this is a tale of suspense, character, and mood by an author the critics rate as one of the great masters of the mystery novel.

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