
The Nine Tailors
Lord Peter Wimsey Book 11
Dorothy L. Sayers(Author)
Hodder Paperback (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 1959
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-450-00100-0 (ISBN)
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Description
A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. 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.
Reviews / Votes
She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit. -- P.D. James Dorothy L Sayers is one of the best detective story writers. -- E. C. Bentley Daily Telegraph I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail. -- Ruth Rendell A truly great storyteller. -- Minette WaltersMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-450-00100-0 (9780450001000)
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nine Tailors
Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals
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01/1996
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
€26.18
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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.