![]() ![]() ![]() Was due to her closer orientation to the Christian faith as she grew more mature. Anything that is liable to sell well may be ruinous." Those who knew her believed, however, that Miss Sayers' change of writing fields In 1952 Miss Sayers said, "One of the reasons I no longer write detective stories is the income tax. Was working on a translation of the "Paradiso." Her last published book was a translation of the medieval French epic "Chanson de Roland." She also translated the "Inferno" and the "Purgatorio" of Dante's "Divine Comedy." At her death she She was one of the leading authorities on the history of crime-fiction writing and occasionally wrote keen analyses of problems presented byĭuring her latter years she abandoned crime fiction to write dramas and interpretive essays on the Christian religion. A post- mortem examination determined that she had died of a coronary thrombosis.ĭorothy Leigh Sayers was widely regarded as one of the most erudite present-day writers of detective fiction. Miss Sayers was found early today in the hall of her house by her gardener. ![]() Plays and books, died last night at her home at Witham, Essex. Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the titled detective- hero of a series of whodunits, and author of theological Dorothy Sayers, Author, Dies at 64 Special to The New York Times ![]()
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