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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Nesser, Håkan
1950 -
Håkan Nesser was born in Elvesta Gård (manor) on the outskirts of Kumla. His father was a farmer, as were his family since t...
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LaPlante, Alice
1958 -
American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological...
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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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