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281:, are interviewed. William confesses that on 30 December he had encountered Deacon, whom he had long believed to be dead, prowling around the church. Desperate to protect his wife and children from the scandal of an illegitimate marriage, he had tied Deacon up and locked him in the bell chamber, planning to bribe him to leave the country the next day. Unfortunately, his bout of influenza prevented him from returning, and Jim discovered Deacon's dead body still tied up two days later. Still loyal to his brother, Jim had made the body unrecognisable, hidden it in Lady Thorpe's grave, and returned to his ship. When the body was rediscovered at Easter, each of the brothers thought that the other had killed Deacon. 1058: 238: 475:, Howard Haycraft noted that Sayers has been called by some critics the greatest of living mystery writers. He went on, "Whether or not the reader agrees with this verdict, he can not, unless he is both obtuse and ungrateful, dispute her preëminence as one of the most brilliant and prescient artists the genre has yet produced... in the writer's estimation her finest achievement and one of the truly great detective stories of all time." 284:
When Wimsey returns to Fenchurch the following Christmas, floods are threatening the countryside, and Wimsey climbs the tower as the bells are sounding the alarm. The appalling noise in the bell chamber convinces him that Deacon, tied there for hours during the all-night New Year peal, could not have
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In their review of crime novels (revised edn 1989), the American writers Barzun and Taylor called this novel "For many reasons, no great favourite... despite Dorothy's swotting up of bell-ringing and the two good maps. The cause of death, however, is original, and the rescue scene in the church amid
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enables him to decipher it, leading him to the emeralds, still in their hiding place in the church. He shows the document to Mary Thoday, and she and William promptly abscond to London. Wimsey deduces that Mary recognised the handwriting as that of Deacon, her first husband, who apparently was still
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in 1936, said "Those who would appreciate an artist's picture of a group of village bellringers – of the kind who can pull a rope with any Londoner – may find one in , contains the best description known to me of the bells, the ringers and the art. It is probably, indeed, the only novel based on a
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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". In his view, Sayers does not, really, write very well: "it is simply that she is more
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on the book's first publication, Isaac Anderson said, "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 Dorothy Sayers has to say about them and about other things concerned with the
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in France, Deacon had waited several years to return for the emeralds that he had hidden before his arrest. He had asked Cranton for help, sending him the cipher as a token of good faith. Cranton had broken into the church, discovered Deacon's body in the bell chamber, and fled in horror.
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on the strength of a sixpenny pamphlet picked up by chance – and invented a method of killing which would not produce death, as well as breaking a fundamental rule of that esoteric art by allowing a relief ringer to take part in her famous nine-hour champion peal."
192:, Geoffrey Deacon, and his accomplice, Nobby Cranton, had been convicted and imprisoned. In 1918, Deacon escaped from prison and disappeared, leaving his wife, Mary, none the wiser. After a man's body in prison clothes was found two years later in a nearby 172:, and revolves around a group of bell-ringers at the local parish church. The book has been described as Sayers' finest literary achievement, although not all critics were convinced by the mode of death, nor by the amount of technical 218:
When Sir Henry dies the following Easter, a man's mutilated body is found in his wife's grave, believed to be that of a labourer calling himself 'Stephen Driver'. Oddly, the dead man was wearing French-made underclothes. The
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survived: Deacon had been killed by the bells themselves. Wimsey explains, "We needn't look for a murderer now. Because the murderers of Geoffrey Deacon are hanging already, and a good deal higher than
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The novel opens with Lord Peter Wimsey running his car into a ditch near Fenchurch on a snowy New Year's Eve. Stranded for a few days while repairs are carried out, Wimsey helps ring an all-night
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Wimsey further deduces that the mutilated man was Deacon. After his escape, Deacon had killed Cobbleigh and swapped clothes and identities with him, leaving him in the dene-hole. After marrying
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ancient art of change-ringing, since her dissertation is all woven into a most fascinating mystery tale.... This is, most emphatically, Dorothy Sayers at her very best."
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in 1918. Cobbleigh evidently knew where the emeralds were hidden and plotted to recover them with 'Driver' – who is revealed to be not the mutilated man, but Cranton.
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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
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consciously literary than most of the other detective story-writers and that she thus attracts attention in a field which is mostly on a sub-literary level."
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alive at the time of the cipher's composition. Realising their marriage was unintentionally bigamous, the Thodays have gone to get remarried.
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village of Fenchurch St Paul, had suffered the theft of a valuable emerald necklace, still unrecovered. The family's then-
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Change Ringing: An Introduction to the Early Stages of the Art of Church Or Hand Bell Ringing for the Use of Beginners
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and trying to translate its technical descriptions into visual effects. That ... 'came out' beyond expectation".
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the flood shows the hand of the master. It should be added that this work is a favourite with many readers.
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Twenty years before the events of the novel, the family of Sir Henry Thorpe, squire of the
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William "Will" Thoday, farm worker, and Lord Peter Wimsey, ring Bell No. 2, "Sabaoth"
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Mrs Wilbraham, cousin to Sir Henry Thorpe, original owner of the emerald necklace
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said that the author "incautiously entered the closed world of bell-ringing in
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has been adapted several times for BBC Radio: as a four-part serialisation by
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Lord Peter Rings the Changes: A Study of Change Ringing in The Nine Tailors
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Much of the technical detail of the novel was taken from Charles Troyte's
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Mary Russell Thoday, William Thoday's wife, previously married to Deacon
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As a child and young teenager, Sayers lived on the southern edge of
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957: In the midst of life
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Wilson, Edmund (1951). "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?".
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Walter "Wally" Pratt, trainee ringer, rings Bell No. 3, "John"
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William Thoday, absent bell ringer, struck down with influenza
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Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties
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Jack Godfrey, churchwarden, rings Bell No. 7, "Batty Thomas"
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Hezekiah Lavender, leader, rings Bell No. 8, "Tailor Paul"
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Nobby Cranton, London jewel-thief and Deacon's accomplice
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Anderson, Isaac (25 March 1934). "New Mystery Stories".
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writes to Wimsey asking him to return to investigate.
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Ezra Wilderspin, blacksmith, rings Bell No. 1, "Gaude"
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Master and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers
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Index


Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey
Mystery novel
Gollancz
Murder Must Advertise
Gaudy Night
mystery novel
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey
Lincolnshire
Fens
campanology
Fenland
butler
dene-hole
bell-ringers
peal
church bells
influenza
rector
manservant
deserted

Stoke Gabriel
change ringing
bell chamber
cipher
change ringing
bigamously

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