Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976

English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....

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MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987

The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...

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Burke, James Lee
1936 -

James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...

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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018

Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....

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