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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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Haynes, Elizabeth
1971 -
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art...
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Lehane, Dennis
1966 -
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
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Ellroy, James
1948 -
Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...
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Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929
Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...
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