Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977

American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...

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Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013

The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...

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Derleth, August
1909 - 1971

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...

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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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