Set in the flood plains on the Fenlands and centered on bell ringing (campanology), the amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey goes about solving a murder mystery.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893, a daughter of a Fenland clergyman, married a journalist in 1926 and died in 1957. Her celebrated detective stories are informative, well-researched, observant and ingenious in their plots. This is her most famous work of fiction.