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The Nine Tailors

AuthorDorothy L Sayers

NarratorFull Cast

SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 11

Duration10h 35m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations, Cosy Crime

PublisherBBC Audiobooks

VersionUnabridged

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Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers to the mystery...?

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