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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
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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![Författarporträtt av Post, Melville Davisson](images/writer/5589/5589_20130206220814.jpg)
Post, Melville Davisson
1869 - 1930
Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Leroux, Gaston](images/writer/4761/5a67555cd4ad34e86d9b6d6377fbf045070a81905603c.jpg)
Leroux, Gaston
1868 - 1927
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris but grew up in a little village in Normandy close to the home of his maternal grandparents....
Further reading![Portrait of Aaron Elkins](images/writer/467/607492e9ab0209651b2d53aec5c77199b66edffc45a04.jpg)
Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dennis Wheatley](images/writer/1857/619ae9c2380c4448c1a90f3f70f1506bd1ec6129ae770.jpg)
Wheatley, Dennis
1897 - 1977
The British author and wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of the foremost 20th century authors of thrillers and...
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