The novels 'Murder Must Advertise' and 'The Nine Tailors' feature which fictional detective?
Murder Must Advertise Murder Must Advertise Murder Must Advertise is a 1933 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the eighth in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Death Bredon arrives at Pym's Publicity Ltd, a highly respectable advertising agency, to take up the post of junior copywriter. He is assigned the room of his predecessor Victor Dean, who has died in a fall down the office's iron spiral staircase. The doctor states that death was caused either by a broken neck, due to his landing on his head at the bottom of the stair, or by a wound of the right temple. The
The Nine Tailors rule of that esoteric art by allowing a relief ringer to take part in her famous nine-hour champion peal". The American critic Edmund Wilson, in his essay attacking the entire genre of detective fiction, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" , criticised "The Nine Tailors" in particular for being dull, overlong and far too detailed. He considered the bell-ringing prose to be "a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology". As a child and young teenager, Sayers lived on the southern edge of the Fens at Bluntisham-cum-Earith, where her