Tey, Josephine
1896 - 1952

Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and...

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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010

Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...

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Leblanc, Maurice
1864 - 1941

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French author born in Rouen, Normandy. His father was a shipowner. Leblanc did well at ...

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