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A quote from my review of Gaudy Night
That goes double for this title!
Elizabeth George wrote a really great introduction for this edition. Amongst other points she writes;
This is a book for a patient reader - which is normally the sort of book I hate!
That goes double for this title!
Elizabeth George wrote a really great introduction for this edition. Amongst other points she writes;
While many detective novelists from the Golden Age of mystery kept their plots pared down to the requisite crime, suspects, clues and red herrings, Sayers did not limit herself to so limited a canvas in her work. She saw the crime and its en...more
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
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