nine tailors is a little dull, what? the book, i remember, was very absorbing, but the dramatisation is rather flat - no interesting characters (mostly read on the coach between york and london - von pinched it out of widener and we had a bash-up to get first shot at it.) but this radio production is very unexciting. it's not the quality of the mystery; where the mystery was poor (have his carcase) you could at least look forward to peter and harriet quarrelling and "port-or-sherry? no claret" frocks. or some twitchy or greasy suspect would come in with an amusing voice and make a pig's breakfast of the case. this one is awfully dull though. it doesn't seem to adapt well to radio. i suppose gaudy night wouldn't work either. gaudy night needs to be a tv series.