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Bailey, H.C.

The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the golden age of the 1920s and '30s. The others are Agatha Christie, F. Wills Crofts, R. Austin Freeman and Dorothy L. Sayers. But he began his career by writing historic fiction.
H.C. Bailey was born in London where he lived for most of his life. After graduating from Corpus...

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The somewhat misanthropic and contemplative Inspector Modeste Laviolette is working in Provence. He is overweight and he loves food and champagne. He has followed in his grandfather’s footsteps; his grandfather was chief of police. Laviolette is a bachelor and animal lover who lives with his housekeeper Chabassut and her 14 cats – he takes care of them after her death – in a string of novels by Pi...

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