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九曲丧钟
  • 九曲丧钟

  • 主演:伊恩·卡迈克尔 格林·休斯顿 Elizabeth Proud Patrick Jordan ElizabethProud PatrickJordan
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  • 导演:Raymond,Menmuir
  • 类型:悬疑 推理 犯罪
  • 简介:The title refers to the nine strokes of a church bell to announce the death of a man. In this adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's intricate, nostalgic, and atmospheric novel of the same name, Lord Peter Wimsey, stranded in a New-Year's Eve snowstorm ca. 1930 in the fens of eastern England, becomes the guest of a local clergyman, an adept enthusiast of the esoteric, mathematical art of change-ringing the eight swinging bells of his magnificent medieval church. Wimsey is pressed into service to assist with a heroic and historic all-night peal to welcome the new year. A few months later the vicar, having learned of Wimsey's reputation as a sleuth, summons him back to the village to investigate a mysterious body newly discovered in the churchyard, an unknown man secretly buried, who had apparently died about the time of Wimsey's first visit. A much earlier jewel robbery, details of church architecture... Written by Paul Emmons