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Lord Peter Wimsey Group Read 2022-2023
The Nine Tailors in the title of the book, refer to a set of bells in a church in the wilds of East Anglia. Travelling to friends one Winters eve just before New Years Eve in Norfolk, Lord Peter and Bunter have a minor car accident as their car crests a small bridge very close to the village of Fenchurch St Paul.
Stranded with no hope of reaching his friends country house, Lord Peter and Bunter are taken in by the local clergyman, Rector Venables, a tradition ...more
The Nine Tailors in the title of the book, refer to a set of bells in a church in the wilds of East Anglia. Travelling to friends one Winters eve just before New Years Eve in Norfolk, Lord Peter and Bunter have a minor car accident as their car crests a small bridge very close to the village of Fenchurch St Paul.
Stranded with no hope of reaching his friends country house, Lord Peter and Bunter are taken in by the local clergyman, Rector Venables, a tradition ...more
May 17, 2020
John
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
dorothy-sayers,
detective
The bells, the bells. For campanology lovers this book is a dream come true. Written in 1934 the story stands the test of time.
Lord Peter Wimsey with his faithful sidekick Bunter have a minor accident at Frogs Bridge and end up spending the night at the rectory in the fictional village church Fenchurch St Paul. There he is roped into nine hours of bell ringing. Due to Will Thoday a bell ringer coming down with influenza.
The rector Theodore Venables, and his wife, Agnes along with a variety of ...more
Lord Peter Wimsey with his faithful sidekick Bunter have a minor accident at Frogs Bridge and end up spending the night at the rectory in the fictional village church Fenchurch St Paul. There he is roped into nine hours of bell ringing. Due to Will Thoday a bell ringer coming down with influenza.
The rector Theodore Venables, and his wife, Agnes along with a variety of ...more
More of a 3.5 but certainly not a four. The pace is all wrong, long periods of slow explanation and then bits of fast pace, very jarring. Would have been better if the whole thing was set during the last part of the book.
Edit: read again and it was frustrating and dreadful.
Edit: read again and it was frustrating and dreadful.
That ending omg
Apr 26, 2013
Cindy
marked it as to-read
Nov 25, 2013
Samarpita Dutta
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Morggie
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it was amazing
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mysteries,
dorothy-l-sayers
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Bob
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Darcy
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Vanessa
marked it as murder-mayhem
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