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The Nine Tailors

AuthorDorothy L. Sayers

NarratorIan Carmichael

Duration10h 30m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Cosy Crime

PublisherChivers

VersionUnabridged

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Storm-bound over the New Year at a Fenland rectory, Lord Peter Wimsey willingly lends a hand in the ringing of a New Year's Eve peal of the church bells. Some months later, a handless, disfigured corpse is discovered in a fresh grave in the churchyard. Lord Peter receives a plea for help from the rector and embarks on one of his most complicated investigations. For this is not the first crime the village has experienced: fifteen years ago the Wilbraham Emeralds were stolen, and they are still missing. Can there be any link? It appears not, but as the clues are unravelled a connection becomes clear, until the great winter flood that sweeps across the Fens leads Lord Peter to the answer.

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