The Nine Tailors
Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals
Published on 18. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-340-48768-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
'I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
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.
'I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
Reviews / Votes
She brought to the detective novel orginality, intelligence, energy and wit - P.D. JamesI admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail - Ruth Rendell
A truly great storyteller - Minette Walters
Dorothy L Sayers is one of the best detective story writers - E.C. Bentley, DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 24 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 178 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-48768-6 (9780340487686)
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Book
09/1959
Hodder Paperback
€31.15
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Person
Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957.