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Sample of authors
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...
Literary figures
Lee Ofsted
Gender: Female
Her parents only had a low income, and Lee Ofsted joined the army at an early age. She subsequently became a golf professional, with varied success. When a murder takes place during a golf tournament, she acts the amateur detective helping police officer Graham Sheldon – who later leaves the police force and becomes her lover. She has continued to solve murders in golf settings in books by Aaron a...