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The Nine Tailors

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 11

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By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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Summary

The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The 11th book featuring Lord Peter, set in a country church, is often named as the best detective story ever written.

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there.

The lore of bell ringing and a brilliantly evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling 20 years later.

©1934 The Trustees of anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime
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"I admire her novels...she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." (Ruth Rendell)
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Very well read by Jane McDowell. A difficult audio ‘read’ as there are many complex annotations of bell ringing, but a good whodunnit that captures a period between the wars very well.
Got a bit lost in parts, felt it was the sort of book I needed to refer back to earlier parts, but stuck with it to the grand conclusion at the end. A good read.

Extraordinary book

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I keep hoping the next book she narrates will be better. Maybe she will have read the reviews and changed her style? But no, still the same awkward cadences, odd pauses and bizarre emphasis. However, this does not detract too much from this wonderfully atmospheric mystery of Sayers'. Several plot twists and blind alleys make you totally confused before the final revelation. Very enjoyable.

Good story, but as usual, McDowell disappoints

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I love Dorothy L Sayers detective stories. For me they are so much better than Agatha Christie. Unfortunately the reader here is ponderous, boring and can't do accents to save her life. There is no variation in tone either. Whoever selected Ms McDowell for this job needs sacking.

The reading 📚 is terrible

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J. McDowell's reading technique is awful. Every word read on the same flat plane, senseless pauses where no comma can possibly be....no inflection in speech. Had to give up as it was such hard work to listen

Terrible narration

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i found this book a very hard listen,I can’t explain how awful the narration is.
would I recommend it … no.

A hard listen.

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