The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is mostly about a very particular part of the British countryside, the fens, and loving descriptions of it and the things that happen there and the kind of people who live there.
It’s also about churchbells. Sayers has to have done a great deal of studying churchbells. There’s a whole British way of ringing bells that’s interesting and difficult and mathematical.
The ‘tailors’ aren’t tailors, by the way. They’re bells.
Bunter is awesome. So competent and great.
Also, I really liked how the solution to the mystery was revealed. It was an exquisitely-timed release of information. Delivered with a precision-calibrated surgical heat-seeking trajectory.
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