Who wrote the detective novel 'The Nine Tailors' in 1934?
The Nine Tailors Lord Peter Wimsey; as an eight-part adaptation by Alistair Beaton for Radio 4 in 1980, with Ian Carmichael as Wimsey; and as a single two-hour "Murder for Christmas" programme by Michelene Wandor in 1987, with Gary Bond as Wimsey. In 1974 the novel was adapted for BBC television by Anthony Steven as a series of four hour-long episodes, starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. 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
The Nine Tailors and a good deal higher than Haman". William Thoday is drowned in the flood trying to save another man. Wimsey speculates that "I think perhaps he guessed at last how Geoffrey Deacon died and felt himself responsible". The "Nine Tailors" of the book's title are taken from the old saying "Nine Tailors Make a Man", which Sayers quotes at the end of the novel. As explained by John Shand in his 1936 "Spectator" article "The Bellringers' Art", "'Nine Tailors' means the nine strokes which at the beginning of the toll for the dead announce to the villagers that a man