Vidocq, Eugène François
1775 - 1857

Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and...

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Smith, Martin Cruz
1942 -

Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father...

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Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961

American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...

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Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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