num_pages: 397
description: When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases.
language: English
title: The Nine Tailors
titlecomplete: The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)
characters: Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Harry Gotobed, Uncle Edward, The Reverend Theodore Venables, Ezra Wilderspin, Mervyn Bunter, Superintendent Blundell, Suzanne Legros, Hilary Thorpe, Jeff Deacon, Alf Donnington, Arthur Cobbleigh, Potty Peake, Hezikiah Lavender, Joe Hinkins, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Jim Thoday, Sir Henry Thorpe, Mary Thoday, Lady Thorpe, Will Thoday
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 19476
places: Fenchurch St. Paul, Fenland
series: Lord Peter Wimsey Chronological, Lord Peter Wimsey
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich