![]() ![]() Lord Peter had experience change-ringing in his own college years and when one of the eight ringers was also laid low with the flu, Lord Peter is asked to help. Lord Peter Wimsey and “his man”, Bunter, end up in a ditch about a mile from the village and seek help at the rectory. Unfortunately, influenza has visited the village and laid low so many of the ringers. It will take 9 hours to accomplish and they planned to have 12 ringers so some could fill in while others took a break. Paul’s is attempting to ring 15,840 Kent Treble Bob Majors to match an 1868 feat accomplished in a college church with only 8 men to ring the 8 bells. In our story, it is New Year’s Eve and Fenchurch St. Campanology is the study of bells, of change-ringing specifically, which adheres to mathematically precise ways in which the bells are rung. The word itself is mysterious, and so is its subject. ![]() Written in 1934, this 11th novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey series shines a light on another topic that I knew nothing at all about. ![]()
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