Photo: uncredited; published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

Also known as: Dorothy Leigh Fleming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, Dorothy Sayers, Дороти Ли Сэйерс, دوروثي سايرز

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