plunged down the side of the dyke into the deep ditch beyond, where the black spikes of a thorn hedge stood bleak and unwelcoming in the glare of the headlights. Right and left, before and behind, the fen lay shrouded.
An edition of The Nine Tailors
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The ninetailors
changes rung on an old theme, in two short touches and two full peals
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there.
The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.
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The nine tailors: changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals
1992, Chivers
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The nine tailors
1988, New English Library, Hodder & Stoughton, Hodder & Stoughton
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The nine tailors: changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals
1984, New English Library
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The nine tailors: changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals
1981, G.K. Hall
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Der Glocken Schlag =: The nine tailors : Variationen u ber ein altes Thema in zwei kurzen Sa tzen und zwei vollen Zyklen
1978, Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins
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The ninetailors: changes rung on an old theme, in two short touches and two full peals
1972, Gollancz
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The nine tailors: changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals
1962, Harcourt, Brace & World
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The nine tailors: changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals
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