Who wrote the detective novel 'The Nine Tailors' in 1934?
"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"
"one ""young woman who showed no signs of yielding to him, and what he did or said on that occasion is in no way related to this story"". This ties in with references in ""Gaudy Night"", when Wimsey is mentioned as undertaking an investigation in an advertisement agency while Harriet Vane goes about her normal life. 1933 ""The Nine Tailors"" (published 1934). Bunter plays a large part in the events. He acts as the perfect valet and assistant investigator. The servant Emily upsets Bunter by wiping fingerprints from a beer bottle. ""You don’t look very merry, Bunter, but then you're"
"The Eight of Swords The Eight of Swords, first published in February 1934, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Septimus Depping is found dead in his Gloucestershire country house, shot with his own gun and holding a card from the Tarot deck, the eight of swords, which stands for ""condemning justice"". Among those present is an Anglican bishop who is an expert in criminology, and sees wanted criminals in every parlourmaid, and Henry Morgan, who writes exciting mystery novels"
"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"
"The Nine-tailed Turtle The Nine-tailed Turtle (, also translated as Nine-tailed Turtles, Nine-headed Turtle, or Nine-times Cuckold) is a novel by (). It was serialized from 1906 to 1910 and has 192 chapters, making it one of the longest novels produced in China's late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican eras. In those two eras, according to David Der-wei Wang, author of """", it was ""phenomenally popular"". In the 1920s was one of the most widely read books. According to Jean Duval, author of ""The Nine-Tailed Turtle: Pornography or 'fiction of exposure,"" at the time ""The Nine-tailed Turtle"" was published,"
"A savage attack on Sayers's writing ability came from the prominent American critic and man of letters Edmund Wilson, in a well-known 1945 article in ""The New Yorker"" called ""Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"" He briefly writes about her famous novel ""The Nine Tailors"", saying ""I declare that it seems to me one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field."" Wilson continues ""I had often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well ... but, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the"
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"is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them [i.e. ""The Garden Murder Case""] 'one more stitch in his literary shroud' was not overstating the case."" ""The Garden Murder Case"" (1936) starred Edmund Lowe as Philo Vance, was directed by Edwin L. Marin and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. <br> The Garden Murder Case The Garden Murder Case (first published in 1935) is the ninth in a series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. Floyd, the son of Professor Garden, invites his socialite friends to the rooftop garden of his father’s New"
"To the Nines (novel) To the Nines is the ninth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Written in 2003, it's the second book in a row that doesn't revolve around a criminal bond, and the first to take Stephanie out of New Jersey and into the neon glitz of Las Vegas. ""To the Nines"" appeared on the ""USA Today"" list of 150 best-selling novels for 17 weeks, peaking at number 2. Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter and amateur detective, who with a combination of luck and intuition usually gets the job done (though often by"
"of advertising in ""Murder Must Advertise"", and advocated women's education (then a controversial subject) and role in society in ""Gaudy Night"". In ""Gaudy Night"", Miss Barton writes a book attacking the Nazi doctrine of Kinder, Küche, Kirche, which restricted women's roles to family activities, and in many ways the whole of ""Gaudy Night"" can be read as an attack on Nazi social doctrine. The book has been described as ""the first feminist mystery novel."" Sayers's Christian and academic interests are also apparent in her detective series. In ""The Nine Tailors"", one of her best-known detective novels, the plot unfolds largely"
"under two different names. Mr. Depping turns out to have been an American criminal, and Gideon Fell must penetrate the secrets of his American associates as well as his British life in retirement in order to bring home the crime to the unlikely criminal. The Eight of Swords The Eight of Swords, first published in February 1934, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Septimus Depping is found dead in his Gloucestershire country house, shot with his own gun and"
"The Ten Teacups The Ten Teacups (U.S. title: ""The Peacock Feather Murders""), is a locked room mystery by American mystery writer John Dickson Carr, writing as Carter Dickson. It features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale, working with Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the tenth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. Chief Inspector Masters receives a note that reads ""There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on"
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"The Sign of the Twisted Candles The Sign of the Twisted Candles is the ninth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. As the second volume written by Walter Karig, it was originally published in 1933 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Due to Karig having died in 1956, as of January 1, 2007, the 1933 book and the other two Nancy Drew books he wrote, have passed into the public domain in Canada and other countries with a life-plus-50 policy. In the course of solving the mystery of an old man's disappearing fortune, Nancy both starts and ends a"
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"murder in front of numerous witnesses. To distinguish Death Bredon from Lord Peter Wimsey, Parker smuggles Wimsey out of the police station and urges him to get into the papers. Accordingly, Wimsey accompanies ""a Royal personage"" to a public event, leading the press to carry pictures of both ""Bredon"" and Wimsey. In 1934 (in ""The Nine Tailors"") Wimsey must unravel a 20-year-old case of missing jewels, an unknown corpse, a missing World War I soldier believed alive, a murderous escaped convict believed dead, and a mysterious code concerning church bells. By 1935 Lord Peter is in continental Europe, acting as"
"The Tailor's Needle The Tailor's Needle (2009) is the debut novel of Indian writer Lakshmi Raj Sharma, who is a professor in the Department of English, University of Allahabad. It was first published in the UK in 2009 () by Picnic Publishing Limited, UK and then by Penguin Books India (2012; ). It is a Raj novel covering the era from 1917 to the 1940s and ends a little before India gets its independence. The characters are Indians and Brits, including a fictional British Viceroy of India. Sir Saraswati is educated at Cambridge and employed with the Maharaja of Kashinagar."
"and attention to detail. After ""Last Seen Wearing..."", Waugh went on to publish more than thirty-five additional detective novels, many aptly described as ""hardboiled"". Pseudonyms include ""Elissa Grandower,"" ""Harry Walker"" and ""H. Baldwin Taylor."" Waugh married Diana Taylor, and the couple had three children. Waugh died on December 8, 2008. Sheridan Wesley Fred Fellows Homicide North Simon Kaye Hillary Waugh Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 – December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Waugh graduated in 1942 from"
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"The Five Red Herrings The Five Red Herrings (also The 5 Red Herrings) is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her sixth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States it was published in the same year under the title ""Suspicious Characters"". The novel includes a foreword in the form of a personal letter from the author ""To my friend Joe Dignam, kindliest of landlords"". The letter starts ""Here at last is your book about Gatehouse and Kirkcudbright. All the places are real places and all the trains are real trains, and all the landscapes are correct, except that"
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"because the author had not ended the book at an appropriate time, the second half of ""The Nine-tailed Turtle"" is ""a dreadfully boring work."" The Nine-tailed Turtle The Nine-tailed Turtle (, also translated as Nine-tailed Turtles, Nine-headed Turtle, or Nine-times Cuckold) is a novel by (). It was serialized from 1906 to 1910 and has 192 chapters, making it one of the longest novels produced in China's late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican eras. In those two eras, according to David Der-wei Wang, author of """", it was ""phenomenally popular"". In the 1920s was one of the most widely"
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"that."" ""Publishers Weekly"" said that ""Grimwood does sustain interest with a premise that could have fallen flat in lesser hands."" 9tail Fox 9tail Fox is a 2005 novel by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. The plot centres on Bobby Zha, a Sergeant at the fictional SFPD Chinatown station in San Francisco. The claimed shooting of a burglar by eleven-year-old Natalie Persikov conflicts with Zha's intuition on the matter, but before he has a real chance to investigate he is shot himself. After meeting the ""Jinwei hu"" (the nine-tailed fox of the title) while dead, Bobby wakes up in a hospital. However, there"
"The Nine Wrong Answers The Nine Wrong Answers, first published in 1952, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr which does not feature any of Carr's series detectives. It is an expansion of Carr's 1942 radio play ""Will You Make A Bet With Death"". This novel is a whodunnit mystery, with an emphasis on the puzzle aspect. The title derives from Carr's atypical use of footnotes to address the reader, remarking on certain interpretations of events, conclusions, or mystery cliches, and telling the reader to discard them, while also urging a very literal interpretation of text. These serve as"
"is dead. A woman's death is announced with 'Six Tailors'. Hence the old saying ... which might otherwise be construed as a slander on a worthy profession"". In 1996 the British Crime Writers' Association awarded the story a ""Rusty Dagger award for the best crime novel of the 1930s"", an award devised and organised for the Association by the noir writer, Russell James. John Shand, writing in ""The Spectator"" 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"
"A simplified version of this novel was made into a 1971 TV pilot film titled """". Cat of Many Tails Cat of Many Tails is a novel that was published in 1949 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set in New York City, United States. A strangler is killing Manhattanites, seemingly at random. The only common thread is the unusual silk cords that are used for the killings; blue for men and pink for women. Other than that, the victims come from all social classes and backgrounds, ethnicities, races, neighbourhoods, etc. The city is in a panic. Ellery"
"They Wouldn't Be Chessmen They Wouldn't Be Chessmen is a 1934 British detective novel by A.E.W. Mason. It is the fourth book in the Inspector Hanaud series of novels. Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore their lustre his secretary, Major Scott Carruthers, hires a beautiful, down-on-her-luck opera singer, Lydia Flight, to wear them while they heal. They take a houseboat on the Seine near Caudebec-en-Caux, and while there make the acquaintance of Julius Ricardo. When"
"popular culture"". Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's heroic detective, has been criticized for being too perfect; over time, the various talents that he displays grow too numerous for some readers to swallow. Edmund Wilson also expressed his distaste for Lord Peter in his criticism of ""The Nine Tailors"": ""There was also a dreadful stock English nobleman of the casual and debonair kind, with the embarrassing name of Lord Peter Wimsey, and, although he was the focal character in the novel ... I had to skip a good deal of him, too."" Wimsey is rich, well-educated, charming, and brave, as well as"
"father was rector. Much of the technical detail of the novel was taken from Charles Troyte's ""Change Ringing"", quotations from which are placed at the start of many of the chapters. In a letter discussing the book, Sayers said ""I wrote [the novel] without ever having seen bells rung, by brooding over ""Troyte on Change-Ringing"" and trying to translate its technical descriptions into visual effects. That ... 'came out' beyond expectation"". ""The Nine Tailors"" has been adapted several times for BBC Radio: as a four-part serialisation by Giles Cooper for the BBC Light Programme in 1954, with Alan Wheatley as"
"of their unknown host from the radio that they are his enemies - and will all meet his ninth guest: Death. The Ninth Guest The Ninth Guest, sometimes listed as The 9th Guest, is a 1934 American pre-Code murder mystery film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin. The film is an adaptation of the 1930 Broadway play ""The Ninth Guest"" by Owen Davis, which in turn is based on the 1930 novel, ""The Invisible Host"", by Bruce Manning and Gwen Bristow. The book, play and film all predate Agatha Christie's extremely successful 1939 novel"