An English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
| Born | 13 June 1893 |
| Died | 17 December 1957 |
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byThe Detection Club,Victor L. Whitechurch,G D H,Henry Wade,Agatha Christie,Cecil John Charles Street,Milward Kennedy,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, and6 othersFirst published in 1931—22 editions
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Dorothy L. Sayers
×CloseEnglish crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
| Born | 13 June 1893 |
| Died | 17 December 1957 |
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Wimsey, peter, lord (fictitious character), fiction,Fiction, mystery & detective, general,Fiction,English Detective and mystery stories,England, fiction,Private investigators,Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional,Detective and mystery stories,Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character),Drama,Large type books,Private investigators, fiction,Christianity,Fiction, general,English Short stories,Crime, fiction,English fiction,Fiction, crime,History,History and criticism,Children's fiction,Murder,Short stories,Vane, harriet (fictitious character), fiction,American Detective and mystery storiesPlaces
England,London (England),Australia,Great Britain,London,221B Baker Street,Baker Street,Calcutta,India,Surrey,221B,427 Park Lane,Abbey Grange,Ballarat,Balliol College,Bodleiana,Bohemia,Boscombe Pool,Boscombe Valley,Camden House,Cave of Ali Baba,Cell 13,Charing Cross railway station,Cherwell (river),ChislehurstPeople
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957),Peter Wimsey Lord (Fictitious character) (1890-),Jesus Christ,John H. Watson,Sherlock Holmes,Dante Alighieri (1265-1321),Lord Peter Wimsey,Faust (d. ca. 1540),Grimesby Roylott,Harriet Vane,Helen Stoner,Stroke Moran,Alice Turner,Annie Oakley,Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930),Arthur Conan Doyle Sir (1859-1930),Aunt Glosspan,Ballarat Gang,Berenice,Bill Hutchinson,C. Auguste Dupin,Charles McCarthy,Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen,Colonel Sartoris,Constantine I Emperor of Rome (d. 337)Time
20th century,1920s,19th century,1888,1894,1920-1935,1935,Ancient times to present (1920s),Antebellum era,George V, 1910-1936,George VI, 1936-1952,Medieval, 500-1500,Modern period, 1600-,Xian dai .My Reading Lists:
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- OLID: OL197515A
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- GoodReads:8734
- ISNI:0000000121258340
- Integrated Authority File (GND):118794779
- IMDb:nm0768465
- Library of Congress Names:n79046044
- LibraryThing:sayersdorothyl
- LibriVox:2018
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- Project Gutenberg:45867
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy):RAVV005038
- VIAF:29540426
- Wikidata:Q106740
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Alternative names
- D. L. Sayers
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers
- Dorothy Sayers
- Dorothy Fleming
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