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  • It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.

    English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...

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Portrait image of John Hart

Hart, John
1965 -

John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books...

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Portrait image of Friedrich Glauser

Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....

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Portrait of Daniel Woodrell

Woodrell, Daniel
1953 -

Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain...

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Portrait of Catherine Aird

Aird, Catherine
1930 -

Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...

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