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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Hoch, Edward D.
1930 - 2008
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime...
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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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Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
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