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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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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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Slaughter, Karin
1971 -
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father...
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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
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