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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

Dorothy L. Sayers,

Elizabeth George (Introduction)

Start date: August 1, 2020

Finish date: August 31, 2020

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Sep 19, 2010 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2012, suspense-thriller, fiction-20th-century, audio-books

Dorothy L Sayers' dramatisation with Ian Carmichael. Another interesting BBC dramatization.

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Sep 05, 2019 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books, mysteries-thrillers, read-in-2019

I love both mysteries, historical fiction and classics, yet I didn't engage very well with this book. I plan to try reading this one again at a later date as I am hopeful that it was just the time and place of this reading that kept me outside the story.

The Nine Tailors is a mystery novel which is the first in a series featuring Lord Peter Wimsley. The body of a man is found buried inside the plot of another and Wimsley must identify the man, and solve the events of his murder as well as find th ...more

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Aug 20, 2020 Brenda rated it liked it

Shelves: golden-age-mystery-etc, on-my-shelf

I love the character of Wimsey, and I really liked the first half of the book, but felt the second half kind of slogged on and got a bit depressing. I really don’t know anything about bell ringing either so that jargon was all over my head and I just read over those parts.

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Apr 19, 2024 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This was an interesting mystery by one of the Queens of mystery. Lord Peter Wimsey is drawn into a small town's mysterious discovery of a dead man whose hands have been cut off and his face beaten so bad he is unrecognizable, the mystery is how he is found in another person's grave, only two feet below ground level. There are no shortages of suspects and relatively little clues. There are missing people galore and supposedly dead people that are still walking around. There are so many loose piec ...more

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Dec 23, 2024 Kara rated it really liked it

Sayers certainly was a genius at her craft, which was on full display in this clever Lord Peter Whimsey story. Just delightful and definitely kept me guessing. The BBC Radio version I listened to was also superb!

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