Leonard Strong His 1932 novel "The Brothers" was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director David MacDonald; it starred Patricia Roc. One reviewer commented, "In a break from tradition, the film substitutes the novel's unhappy ending with an even unhappier one." Strong collaborated on or contributed to such filmscripts as "Haunted Honeymoon" (1940; a Dorothy L. Sayers story about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane), "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill" (1948), and "Happy Ever After" (1954). "Kirkus Reviews" asserted in 1935, "L. A. G. Strong can be counted on for a nostalgic picture of the call of the wild, and spins a
The Nine Tailors The Nine Tailors The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Stranded after a car accident in the fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve, Lord Peter Wimsey helps ring a nine-hour peal on the church bells overnight after William Thoday, one of the ringers, is struck down with influenza. Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry, the local squire, dies the next morning and Wimsey hears how the family has been blighted by the theft 20 years previously of a valuable emerald necklace which was