Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.

Sayers in work by other authors

Sayers's work was frequently parodied by her contemporaries (and sometimes by herself). A particularly interesting example is "Greedy Night" (1938) by E. C. Bentley, the author of the early modern detective novel Trent's Last Case, a work which Sayers admired.

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Parodied - E. C. Bentley - Trent's Last Case

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Sayers appears, with Agatha Christie, as a title character in Dorothy and Agatha , a fictional murder mystery by Gaylord Larsen, in which a man is murdered in her dining room, and Sayers has to solve the crime.

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Agatha Christie - Gaylord Larsen

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Jill Paton Walsh has completed and published two additional novels about Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane: Thrones, Dominations, based on an unfinished novel; and A Presumption of Death, based on the "Wimsey Papers", letters ostensibly written by various Wimseys and published in The Spectator during World War II.

Related Topics:
Jill Paton Walsh - Thrones, Dominations - A Presumption of Death - The Spectator - World War II

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