Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many as a pre-eminent writer of mystery stories. She was quite scientific in her approach towards crime fiction. She is the inventor of the voice-activated lock featured in the 1928 short story ‘The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba’. Dorothy L. Sayers 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, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. Miss Sayers was one of the first women to obtain an Oxford University degree after attending its Somerville College. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. Her work, carefully researched and widely varied, included poetry, the editing of collections with her erudite introductions on the genre, and the translating of the Tristan of Thomas from mediaeval French. She admired E C Bentley and G K Chesterton and numbered among her friends T S Eliot, Charles Williams, and C S Lewis. During her latter years she abandoned crime fiction to write dramas and interpretive essays on the Christian religion. In her middle years she liked to drive a motorcycle.
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