![]() ![]() ![]() Many of her books were based on this character and her carefully researched plots proved very popular with her fans. ![]() She published her first book in 1923, Whose Body, which featured one of her favourite literary characters - amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Eschewing the academic life she moved to London in 1922 where she worked for an advertising agency as a copywriter. Born in Oxford to a family involved in education, she excelled as a student herself and graduated with honours. She is best known for her crime fiction but also for her popular plays. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer and playwright. ![]() And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of Lord Peter Wimsey. When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters, including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder all are perfectly ghastly yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)Ĭrime, England, fiction, Lord Peter Wimsey (Fictional character), mystery, private investigators, female detectives ![]()
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