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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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -

American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...

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Patterson, James
1947 -

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...

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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -

The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...

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