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Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fianc died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent - as determined as he was to make her his wife. Author Biography: Dorothy L. Sayers is the author of novels, short stories, poetry collections, essays, reviews and translations. Although she was a noted Christian scholar, she is most known for her detective fiction. Born in 1893, she was one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford University. Her first book featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Whose Body , was published in 1923 and over the next 20 years more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared.



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