Rankin, Ian
1960 -

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...

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Ellroy, James
1948 -

Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...

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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -

The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...

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Noll, Ingrid
1935 -

The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician,...

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