The Nine Tailors
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 1859 readers · 287 pages · ≈ 5 h 19 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Nine Tailors?
About ≈ 5 h 19 m — 287 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Nine Tailors?
287 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Nine Tailors?
It sits on the Mystery, History, Fiction shelves.
Is The Nine Tailors in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who are the main characters in The Nine Tailors?
The main characters include Lord Peter Wimsey.
Where does The Nine Tailors take place?
It is set in England, Great Britain during George V, 1910-1936, George VI, 1936-1952.
Who wrote The Nine Tailors?
Dorothy L. Sayers.
“plunged down the side of the dyke into the deep ditch beyond, where the black spikes of a thorn hedge stood bleak and unwelcoming in the glare of the headlights. Right and left, before and behind, the fen lay shrouded.”