Post, Melville Davisson
1869 - 1930

Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer...

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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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Hammesfahr, Petra
1951 -

Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....

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Crumley, James
1939 - 2008

The American author and teacher James Arthur Crumley never reached bestseller status. However, he was instrumental in the...

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