Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mystery.
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mystery.
Creighton Karas answers to no one and is denied nothing. He leads his company like a marauder, rampaging through financial markets and scores of women worldwide until the unthinkable sets in…boredom. At least, until he meets a southern spitfire who disappears after an explosive one-night stand.
Miss Seeton is “awarded” a luxury cruise catering to art lovers, not knowing that Scotland Yard suspects art fraud. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!
Trish Thumper is on track to be a star tennis player only her father’s enemies have other plans for her. Luckily Sir George is a friend of his and Rytham Hall provides a safe refuge for Trish where the bad guys will have to contend with an eccentric English spinster.
There’s more to copywriting than meets the eye, when Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover as a copywriter to uncover the truth of a suspicious accident.
The notorious Duke of Avon, nicknamed “Satanas”, runs into a young boy in a dark Parisian back alley, and he buys Leon, a redheaded urchin with strangely familiar looks . . .
Who should be hobnobbing with the great and the good at a Buckingham Palace garden party but little Miss Emily Seeton, retired teacher and artistic sleuth. It seems there may be a traitor amongst HM’s faithful retainers.
When the only treasure chests found have corpses instead of coins, Jack has to spring into action. Because sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.
An omnibus of thirteen stories : four are part of the Lord Peter Wimsey vintage mystery series, six feature Montague Egg, and the last two are independent stories, all taking place in the England of the early 20th century.
Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes on an undercover assignment that brings her across the country and into the crosshairs of a dangerous group of hackers.