id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7092 Dorothy L. Sayers - Wikipedia .html text/html 6590 705 74 Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/sɛərz/;[1] 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. H. Auden and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein were notable critics of her novels.[31][32] A savage attack on Sayers' writing ability came from the American critic Edmund Wilson, in a well-known 1945 article in The New Yorker called "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"[33] He briefly writes about her novel The Nine Tailors, saying "I declare that it seems to me one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field." Wilson continues "I had often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well ... ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7092.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7092.txt