Talk:Dorothy L. Sayers

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It may be that you, like this reviewer, do not know the difference between a kent treble bob major and a grandsire triple, but even so, you will probably enjoy what Dorthy Sayers has to say about them and about other things concerned with the ancient art of change-ringing, since her dissertation is all woven into a most fascinating mystery tale.

Some months after the belling-ringing episode, Lord Peter is invited by the rector to come back and unravel the mystery of an unidentified corpse that has been found in a grave where it had no business to be. The case is an usually difficult one.... you will make some delightful acquaintances among the people of the parish of Fenchurch St. Paul. This is, most emphatically, Dorothy Sayers at her very best.

New Mystery Stories, by Isaac Anderson, March 25, 1934, at http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70817F83D58177A93C7AB1788D85F408385F9

From the NYT obit at http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/home/sayers-obit.html?scp=14&sq=The%20Nine%20Taylors&st=cse, December 19, 1957

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was widely regarded as one of the most erudite present-day writers of detective fiction.

Probably Miss Sayers will be remembered longest for the creation of Lord Peter Wimsey, an efficient although at times insufferably affected peer who solved crimes and served as a mouthpiece for Miss Sayers' considerable learning.

"The Nine Tailors," published in 1934, is not only a murder mystery but also a learned study of campanology, the art of bell ringing. Many critics regard this as her finest literary achievemen