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| Title | : | The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey #11) |
| Author | : | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 397 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1989 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (first published 1934) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics |
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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| 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) |
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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 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.Where I got the book; from my bookshelf.The Nine Tailors, I have noticed, is the book people often mention in connection with Dorothy L. Sayers. It's a perennial favorite, mostly, I suspect, because of the solution to the murder--(view spoiler)[which comes in the very last few pages of the book through sheer happenstance and not because of Wimsey's Great Brain. Is this cheating? Did we, the readers, really have all the clues in front of us? Lots of hints, maybe, of the
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
One of my favourites of the Peter Wimsey books, though I have to say that this time I felt that there was something a bit off about the pacing. It felt a little slow in places, and because the 'murdered' man so patently obviously "deserved" it (i.e. is not a sympathetic sort of character: I'm not a fan of the death penalty or revenge killings or anything like that, but you do feel that he "got what was coming to him") it's difficult to feel any urgency about the investigation, especially because
I'm having a terrible time writing this review. OK -- yes, there's a mystery and it's an interesting mystery. Yes, it's just as improbable as most of Sayers' other mysteries. Yes, the writing is gorgeous. Yes, it's literary and elliptical. And all of that is really good.I think, though, that The Nine Tailors was something more -- I think it was DS's meditation on the divine, or if it wasn't intentionally, I think that's what she did without knowing it. The whole cast of characters is there,
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
A classic. The mystery itself is complex and absorbing, but what I like best is how it is placed in a fully realized settingthe place and its inhabitants are at least as important as the mystery. I love the residents of Fenchurch St. Paul, from Mr. Venables (and especially Mrs. Venables) to Hilary Thorpe and all the bell ringers and the servants and everyone in between.
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