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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 Gaboriau, Émile](images/writer/4713/4713_20121122232123.jpg)
Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...
Further reading![Portrait of Michael Robotham](images/writer/4682/609a51ac0fe18181efe3ec688cd56505d7473a5018647.jpg)
Robotham, Michael
1960 -
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...
Further reading![Portrait image of William Brodrick](images/writer/5432/6197b24aa22e340248bac15850244364826758a9df418.jpg)
Brodrick, William
1960 -
The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family...
Further reading![Portrait image of Guillaume Musso](images/writer/7714/620134efde675a360f1d552a7763f670da30872323917.jpg)
Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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