The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous lord peter whimsey to investigate the good and evil that lurks in every person. It is a kind of behaviour to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favourable. All told, sayers published 12 detective novels between 1923 and 1937, several of which have become international classics. The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into lower regent street across the route of a 19 bus, a 38b and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear. Dorothy leigh sayers june 189317 december 1957 who preferred to be referred to as dorothy l sayers, was a renowned english crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and christian humanist.
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