Description: Originally published: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923.
Brief description:
Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.
Review Quotes:
"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times
"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence and wit. She gave it a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any other writer of her age to make the genre intellectually respectable." - P.D. James
"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times
"Just the thing to get a person through a stowstorm." - New York Times
"I admire her novels...She has a great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." - Ruth Rendell