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Bailey, H.C.

The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the golden age of the 1920s and '30s. The others are Agatha Christie, F. Wills Crofts, R. Austin Freeman and Dorothy L. Sayers. But he began his career by writing historic fiction.
H.C. Bailey was born in London where he lived for most of his life. After graduating from Corpus...

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A Danish journalist and private detective, whose name is never actually mentioned in the 13 books about him that Dan Turèll has written. The Nameless is an ordinary, rather worn-out gentleman who lives on his own in a boring flat and comes across crimes in shabby settings, inhabited by odd people. He solves cases with the help of Superintendent Ehlers – and the beautiful lawyer Gitte Bristol, wh...

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