The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers · first published 1934
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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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…looped round your neck, and it'll quite happily hang you as it goes. For everything you ever wanted to know about bells, bellringing, changeringing, and the Fens of England, read Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors; and the non-bell-related content is damn good, too.
on “So Long, Whitechapel Bell Foundry” ↗For those who prefer reading books, there's always the precursor: _The_Nine_Tailors_ by Dorothy L Sayers. If you can find it, I believe there was a program or series called something like _Lord_Peter_Wimsey_ that aired on PBS that may have aired some time before the turn of the century.
on “For the good of society, we must study how to properly ring bells” ↗…to change ringing) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a mighty 20 volume encyclopaedia). So if you like old detective stories and this article tickled your interest, perhaps give "The Nine Tailors" a whirl. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors
on “A revolution in English bell ringing” ↗One of the weirder murders was in “The Nine Tailors” by Dorothy L Sayers, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and much church bell ringing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors
on “Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction” ↗