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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 Carofiglio, Gianrico](images/writer/5268/wm_BL_5268_20160404180350_Large.jpg)
Carofiglio, Gianrico
1961 -
Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian novelist and former judge born and raised in Bari, Apulia. After having passed his law...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Griffiths, Elly](images/writer/5854/wm_BR_599460e476d8f1f33cdecc86d2a95d6af1c5a73f10038.jpg)
Griffiths, Elly
1963 -
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...
Further reading![Portrait of Patricia Moyes](images/writer/2789/609a9664e1b76895b1c2ea0eb5ae498f9346172252fe2.jpg)
Moyes, Patricia
1923 - 2000
Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gercke, Doris](images/writer/611/wm_BR_611_20160323153141_Large.jpg)
Gercke, Doris
1937 -
Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...
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