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Portrait image of Dorothy L. Sayers Photo: Bonnierförlagens archive

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Sayers, Dorothy L.

English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...

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Jack Finch

Gender: Male

A taciturn, patient detective chief inspector in English Essex who solves his cases with the help of his knowledge of human nature, psychological insight and thorough police work in a suite of novels by June Thomson. Jack Finch – in the USA re-named as Jack Rudd – is unmarried and lives together with his sister. He finds it hard to have contact with women, often feels lonely and has a lot of sym...

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