Beckett, Simon
1960 -

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...

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Lewis, Mary
1907 - 1988

Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and c...

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Allbeury, Ted
1917 - 2005

The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father...

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Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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