Sample of Authors
Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961
American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...
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May, Peter
1951 -
Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who has received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but has lived...
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Billingham, Mark
1961 -
The British author Mark Philip David Billingham was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, and grew up near Birmingham where he...
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McClure, James
1939 - 2006
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...
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