The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

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When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases. Free Download The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) [ Author ] Dorothy L. Sayers [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr 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 you better not anger the b 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 you better not anger the bells variety hide spoiler but as murder mysteries go, I find it unsatisfactory.As a novel, however, it s a great read I love it because of the setting the flat, watery fens every time Wimsey s outside I can feel the damp wind wh... 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 , 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...borrowed from the kate I started to eyeball Kate s review and I can t, because I ll probably just say what she says But here are some thoughts unfiltered.First, okay, there was a lot about bells Let s say, if you re not interested in learning a lot of important information about the incredibly archane field of change ringing...The eleventh Lord Peter Wimsey novel sees him and Bunter on their way to spend New Years with friends, when their car funs off the road, into a ditch, in a snowstorm They find themselves stranded in the village of Fenchurch St Pauls, where they are taking in by the kindly Reverend Venables and his wife However, far from being a relaxing evening, the Reverend discovers that Lord Peter has some experience bell ringing his personal passion With the village decimated by influenza, and a man sho The eleventh Lord Peter Wimsey novel sees him and Bunter on their way to spend New Years with friends, when their car funs off the road, into a ditch, in a snowstorm They find themselves stranded in the village of Fenchurch St Pauls, where they are taking in by the kindly Reverend Venables and his wife However, far from being a relaxing evening, the Reverend discovers that Lord Peter has some experience bell ringing his personal passion With the village decimated by influenza, and a man short, he asks Wimsey to take part in a planned bell ringing marathon.While staying with the Reverend, Lord Peter hears of the death of Lady Thorpe and of the theft of an emerald necklace some years before, whe...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 somethingI 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, righ 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 somethingI 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...This is not my favourite Lord Peter mystery.There was a lot about bells, most of which went right over my head I tended to skip the combinations for the ringing of the bells and also the very lengthy procedure taken to break the cypher Other than that, it was a good read which could have been improved by not quite so much of the bell ringing paraphernalia I like to learn about things, but here I think Sayers went a bit overboard.Lord Peter and Bunter find themselves marooned in a Fens village This is not my favourite Lord Peter mystery.There was a lot about bells, most of which went right over my head I tended to skip the combinations for the ringing of the bells an..., , , , Readathon2017 26 26 THE BELLS THE BELLS OH GOD, THE BELLS.There are bells in this story Big bells, little bells, people who know how to ring bells on a professional level, the politics of bell ringing, bells who sometimes attack their ringers, endurance tests of bell ringing, history of bells, bells bells bells, it s stopped even being a word now and is just a noise Bell Meaningless.That is how I felt when putting down this book I assume that a bell ringer would go into spasms of delight while reading Th THE BELLS THE BELLS OH GOD, THE BELLS.There are bells in this story Big bells, little bells, people who know how to ring bells on a professional level, the politics of bell ringing, bells who sometimes attack their ringers, endurance tests of bell ringing, history of bells, bells bells bells, it s stopped even being a word now and is just a noise Bell Meaningless.That is how I felt when putting down this book I assu...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 D 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 Dorothy Sayers, and the reason I now like herthan Agatha Christie, is because I always learn something from her novels In this book, the lesson of the day is the art of bellringing in fact the title doesn t refer to literal tailors at all nine tailors are the nine bell strokes rung to announce a death If you think bellringing is a simple act, you will find out exactly how wrong you are by the third chapter If you acknowledge that bellringing is probablyinteresting than it sounds, you will ...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 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 of...

The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
  • English
  • 12 December 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 397 pages
  • 0151658978
  • Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)