Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849

Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...

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Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -

A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...

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Block, Lawrence
1938 -

Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and...

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