The works of English writer Dorothy L. Sayers include mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature the fictional Lord Peter Wimsey, an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. Sayers was educated at home and then at the University of Oxford. In 1916, a year after her graduation, Sayers published her first book, a collection of poems entitled Op. I, which she followed two years later with a second, a slim volume titled Catholic Tales and Christian Songs. In 1923 she published Whose Body?, a murder mystery novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and went on to write eleven novels and five collections of short stories about the character. The Wimsey stories were popular, and successful enough for Sayers to leave the advertising agency where she was working. Towards the end of the 1930s, and without explanation, Sayers stopped writing crime stories and turned instead to religious plays and essays, and to translations. Some of her plays were broadcast on the BBC, others performed at the Canterbury Festival and some in commercial theatres. (Full list...)