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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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Haynes, Elizabeth
1971 -
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art...
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Hoch, Edward D.
1930 - 2008
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime...
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Schenkel, Andrea Maria
1962 -
The German author Andrea Maria Schenkel was born and raised in Regensburg. Her parents were civil servants. Her mother and,...
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Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...
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