Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.
"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)"[Sayers] brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit." -- P.D. James"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." -- Los Angeles Times"So excitingly good in its field, so brilliantly planned and so excellently written, that even the weariest able minds and the jumpiest nerves should react pleasingly to it." -- New York Times"Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself." -- Chicago Tribune "Very skillfull writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with ease and grace." -- Saturday Review"A royal performance." -- The Spectator
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