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Start ValuationDorothy L. Sayers
13th June 1893 - 17th December 1957
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Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero detective who first appeared in her debut novel Whose Body (1923) and in 13 subsequent publications. She also gained a reputation as a dramatist, most famously for The Man Born to be King (1941-42) broadcast on the BBC; and then as a translator, particularly of Dante’s The Divine Comedy (1949-55 and then posthumously completed in 1962) and the chivalrous romance The Song of Roland (1957).
| Title | Date | Location | Publication |
| Whose Body? | 1923 | London | Unwin |
| Clouds of Witness | 1926 | London | Unwin |
| Unnatural Death | 1927 | London | Benn |
| Lord Peter Views the Body | 1928 | London | Gollancz |
| The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | 1928 | London | Benn |
| Strong Poison | 1930 | London | Gollancz |
| The Documents in the Case | 1930 | London | Benn |
| The Five Red Herrings | 1931 | London | Gollancz |
| Have his Carcase | 1932 | London | Gollancz |
| Hangman's Holiday | 1933 | London | Gollancz |
| Murder must Advertise | 1933 | London | Gollancz |
| The Nine Taylors | 1934 | London | Gollancz |
| Gaudy Night | 1935 | London | Gollancz |
| Busman's Honeymoon | 1937 | London | Gollancz |
| In the Teeth of the Evidence | 1940 | London | Gollancz |
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