The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey Series #9)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Overview

The Nine Tailors is Dorothy L. Sayers's finest mystery, featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and a classic of the genre.

 

The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Whimsey to investigate the good and evil that lurks in every person. Steeped in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat fen-country of East Anglia, this is a tale of suspense, character, and mood by an author critics and readers rate as one of the great masters of the mystery novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156658997
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/28/1966
Series:	Lord Peter Wimsey Series , #9
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	122,462
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)

About the Author

Dorothy L. Sayers is the author of many novels, short stories, and essays, as well as the editor of many more volumes, but she will forever be remembered for creating the brilliant, idiosyncratic Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers was widely hailed for taking the novel of detection to new heights of literary and popular achievement, but, much to the frustration of her fans, wrote only eleven books featuring Lord Peter. Sayers died in Essex, England, in 1957.
 

Date of Birth:

June 13, 1893

Date of Death:

December 17, 1957

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1915; M.A., B.C.L., 1920