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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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Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...
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Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...
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French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...
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