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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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Lockridge, Richard
1898 - 1982
An American journalist and author, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he also grew up. After finishing school, he studied...
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Dahl, Arne
1963 -
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...
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Hammesfahr, Petra
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Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....
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Smirnoff, Karin
1964 -
Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also w...
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