Broadcast: April 13-May 4, 1975. Story opens in 1914 when Wimsey attends a fashionable wedding in Fenchurch before leaving his regiment in France. The festivities are shattered by the discovery that the jewels belonging to a guest have been stolen. The jewels are never recovered. 18 years later when Lord Peter Wimsey attends the funeral of an old friend in the same country village, there are two corpses -- one body is already in the grave bound with bell ropes. Nine Tailors is bell ringers' term that refers to the peal that tolls for the dead.
