About the Author

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. Her blue-blooded sleuth romps cheerfully through 1920s and 1930s high society. Arguably the best of the leading "Golden Age" crime writers, Sayers was also a distinguished theologian and classical scholar whose translations of Dante are still in print today.

Reviews

"One of the greatest mystery story writers of the [twentieth] century." -Los Angeles Times
"Sayers gave [the detective novel] 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