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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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Knox, Ronald A.
1888 - 1957
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a well-known and much loved English Catholic priest, theologian and author of crime...
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Cash, Wiley
1977 -
Wiley Cash is an American crime writer. His first two novels went on to become bestsellers with a general appeal. He was...
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Meyer, Deon
1958 -
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...
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Fleming, Ian
1908 - 1964
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of t...
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