The Nine Tailors Author is a six-letter answer: SAYERS. This refers to Dorothy L. Sayers, an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She 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. Her most famous work is The Nine Tailors, a 1934 mystery novel set in the fen country of East Anglia.