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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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![Författarporträtt av Horst, Jørn Lier](images/writer/6196/wm_BR_6196_20160316133456_Large.jpg)
Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -
A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...
Further reading![Portrait image of Sébastien Japrisot](images/writer/848/6197e529cb89d0fa3ddb2fb428bfc6302c3fafd5d81ae.jpg)
Japrisot, Sébastien
1931 - 2003
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents....
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Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Poe, Edgar Allan](images/writer/1387/1387_20150507172059_Large.jpg)
Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849
Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...
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