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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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Hoch, Edward D.
1930 - 2008
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime...
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Creasey, John
1908 - 1973
The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around...
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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
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Woodrell, Daniel
1953 -
Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain...
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