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Jun 13, 1893 — Dec 17, 1957· 64 yrs

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Also known as: D. L. Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French. She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923. Between then and 1939 she wrote ten more novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.

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Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.

— from Whose Body?, 1988

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Busman's honeymoon

1996

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Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with severe head injuries. - Wikipedia.

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Whose Body?

1988

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The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate

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Murder Must Advertise

1933

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When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye-- cocaine, blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines.

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