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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Dorothy Sayers
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(1893–1957) Writer of detective fiction and creator of the elegant amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who first appeared, with his manservant Bunter, in Whose Body? (1923). In Strong Poison (1930) Wimsey cleared Harriet Vane, a female writer of detective stories, of a charge of murder; he also fell in love with her, and in Busman's Honeymoon (1937) they married. With this their creator brought to an end their careers, and her own as an author of detective fiction. Her later work included a radio play about the life of Christ (The Man Born to be King, broadcast at monthly intervals in 1941–2) and translations of Dante's Inferno (1949) and Purgatorio (1955).
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