The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.
Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.
Sayers' characters are memorable, well-described and developed, and her plots and descriptions are exceedingly well done. Reading Sayers spoiled me for many other mystery writers because few can come up to her standards.