Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey novels, starting with Whose Body? in 1923. The series follows an upper-class amateur sleuth, and in Strong Poison she introduced Harriet Vane, the woman Wimsey courts. Sayers was one of the four Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of detective fiction, and she later wrote religious plays and a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, left unfinished when she died at her Essex home in 1957.