The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. The story is set in the Lincolnshire Fens, and revolves around a group of bell-ringers at the local parish church. The book has been described as Sayers' finest literary achievement, although not all critics were convinced by the mode of death, nor by the amount of technical campanology detail included.
First edition
Bell-ringing in Stoke Gabriel parish church, Devon – similar to the change ringing described in the book
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
St Mary's Church, Bluntisham, where Sayers's father was rector during her childhood
Somerville College
Sayers's second book of verse, 1918
Second of Sayers's two 1930 novels