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beatricks 's review for:
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Alternated between audiobook and kindle for this one. I still don't understand a goddamn thing about change ringing OR fen drainage, but I enjoyed the sense of time and place created by such attention to these details. Kristin Cashore cites this as one of her favorite books, and I can see a bit of Bitterblue in the cryptic oddities here. My favorite thing about this book, however, is the subtle stiffness of everything that's supposed to be in French. I studied a different Romance language in school, but I'd bet any number of hats that Sayers rendered her syntax thus in an approximation of the literal French it is supposedly translated from. Delightful.
I am puzzled by how far in advance both the corpse's identity and manner of death were obvious to me, but not Wimsey. Have I read so many mysteries by now that I've cottoned on to all the tricks? Is it just very obvious? Who... am I?!?
I am puzzled by how far in advance both the corpse's identity and manner of death were obvious to me, but not Wimsey. Have I read so many mysteries by now that I've cottoned on to all the tricks? Is it just very obvious? Who... am I?!?