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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...
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Hart, John
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John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books...
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Oates, Joyce Carol
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American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...
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