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Cover of “The Nine Tailors” by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934

338 pages

Lord Peter Wimsey is stranded by floods in the fenland village of Fenchurch St Paul over New Year. Months later a battered body is found in a newly opened grave, and Wimsey must read the village's bell-ringing lore and an old jewel theft to give the dead man a name.

Tropes

Eccentric Detective, Small Town Secrets, Cozy Mystery

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