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| Original Title: | The Nine Tailors |
| ISBN: | 0151658978 (ISBN13: 9780151658978) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Lord Peter Wimsey #11, Lord Peter Wimsey Chronological |
| Characters: | Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Sir Henry Thorpe, Lady Thorpe, Hilary Thorpe, Will Thoday, The Reverend Theodore Venables, Superintendent Blundell, Mary Thoday, Jeff Deacon, Jim Thoday, Uncle Edward, Harry Gotobed, Joe Hinkins, Ezra Wilderspin, Arthur Cobbleigh, Suzanne Legros, Alf Donnington, Potty Peake, Hezikiah Lavender |
| Setting: | Fenchurch St. Paul, Fenland(United Kingdom) |
Dorothy L. Sayers
Hardcover | Pages: 397 pages Rating: 4.05 | 14604 Users | 1119 Reviews
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”When I was a girl, we would work in the fields, and walk for miles. That was in the fens. Before I came out. Flat country, certainly but it does not let you eat it up all that easy.” She laughed. “We would skate, too, all of us girls and boys; we was nine in the family. We would skate across the flooded country during a hard winter, miles and miles, everything so brittle. The twigs on the hedges looked as if you could have broken them off like glass.”Her eyes were suddenly brightened by what she was telling. Solidity in herself seemed to give to the glass twigs some mysterious, desirable, unattainable property of their own.
—Riders in the Chariot, by Patrick White
It’s an excellent radio theater production of a whodunit. Maybe, best for lovers of bellringing.
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| Title | : | The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey #11) |
| Author | : | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 397 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1989 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (first published 1934) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics |
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One of my five favorite mysteries set in England, and the cause for our touring the Fens and particularly Ely, and later King's Lynn and Norwich, on succeeding visits for a decade. Also an introduction to the Changes in English bell-ringing which we grew very familiar with in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, in '96. (The six bell repository of St Wlita there, old as Canterbury, but female and thought to cure eyes especially. Two of the six went back to 1603 and 1607.)When I was a girl, we would work in the fields, and walk for miles. That was in the fens. Before I came out. Flat country, certainly but it does not let you eat it up all that easy. She laughed. We would skate, too, all of us girls and boys; we was nine in the family. We would skate across the flooded country during a hard winter, miles and miles, everything so brittle. The twigs on the hedges looked as if you could have broken them off like glass.Her eyes were suddenly brightened by what she
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, in its infinite wisdom, has seen fit to make this book one of two Dorothy Sayers mysteries that you absolutely have to read or you are illiterate. I still say that Strong Poison should have made the list, but the good people at The List Inc. haven't ever listened to my suggestions and certainly aren't going to start now. That being said, The Nine Tailors is still a delightful addition to Lord Peter Wimsey's collection of exploits. The thing I love about
When I was a girl, we would work in the fields, and walk for miles. That was in the fens. Before I came out. Flat country, certainly but it does not let you eat it up all that easy. She laughed. We would skate, too, all of us girls and boys; we was nine in the family. We would skate across the flooded country during a hard winter, miles and miles, everything so brittle. The twigs on the hedges looked as if you could have broken them off like glass.Her eyes were suddenly brightened by what she
Dorothy L. Sayers has done it again. Written in 1934, this 11th novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey series shines a light on another topic that I knew nothing at all about. Campanology. The word itself is mysterious, and so is its subject. Campanology is the study of bells, of change-ringing specifically, which adheres to mathematically precise ways in which the bells are rung.In our story, it is New Years Eve and Fenchurch St. Pauls is attempting to ring 15,840 Kent Treble Bob Majors to match an
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 overhead, the four quarters and the twelve strokes of midnight. The ringers grasped their ropes. Go!The Bells! The Bells! Esmeraldaaaaaa!.....Okay, okay, wrong book. Well, at least the Esmeralda part.
Did you know that once, church bells were synchronised so that they could be tolled like a music orchestra? Yes, that is right!This is one fascinating fact I got from this very unusual mystery, where a man has been murdered without using any external force.I loved this one!
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