Dorothy Leigh Sayers , British essayist, novelist, critic, scholar, and playwright, who made her reputation with the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, spent her final years on scholarship and chancel drama. Born in Oxford in 1893, the only child of He...

Although Dorothy L. Sayers is known chiefly for her detective fiction and somewhat less well for her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, she was also a prolific and controversial essayist and lecturer. She is among the more significant modern British C...

Her dozen detective novels and two dozen short stories in that genre established the reputation of Dorothy Leigh Sayers in the 1920s and 1930s as a major writer of mysteries; they also established Lord Peter Wimsey as an equally famous fictional detectiv...

Police said Wednesday they suspect Israel's most outspoken Arab leader of aiding enemies of the Jewish state, a case that threatens to inflame volatile relations between the country's Jews and its Arab minority.Lawmaker Azmi Bishara, who has left Israel, says he is a victim of...

Iraq emerged from a vital conference Friday with a promise from Arab countries to stop foreign militants from joining Iraq's insurgency. But Baghdad didn't get the debt relief it wanted, and its Sunni Arab neighbors demand Iraq's Shiite-led government enact tough political reforms.The two-day gathering...

For the third time in nine months, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is making headlines for all the wrong reasons.Vick reluctantly surrendered a water bottle to security at Miami International Airport that smelled like marijuana and contained a substance in a hidden compartment. He was...

Nearly half of Pakistanis surveyed suspect that government agencies or government-linked politicians killed Benazir Bhutto, according to an opinion poll, highlighting popular mistrust in the country's U.S.-allied president ahead of elections next month.Bhutto, an opposition leader and former prime minister, was killed in a gun...