Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929

Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...

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Cole, Martina
1959 -

Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...

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MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987

The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...

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Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873

While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...

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