The Nine Tailors

For her 1934 book The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers had to learn about bell-ringing: In it, and in the film version starring Ian Carmichael, Lord Peter Wimsey not only rings one of eight church bells in a record-setting series of sound-patterns called "changes" but also uses his knowledge of bell-ringing to solve a 20-year-old mystery, located in the Fens, of a stolen emerald necklace.

The title refers to the nine times a church bell was rung to signal the death of a man in the parish; for a woman it was six times.