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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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![Författarporträtt av Cook, Robin (1940-)](images/writer/6711/5f91b0c9e9c7732499d38a61932d62824c07a6a1693f8.jpg)
Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cornwell, Patricia D.](images/writer/351/5f91952af12a2d6220ddc5e460049d1dffe7062afb8bc.jpg)
Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -
The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Edwardson, Åke](images/writer/441/wm_BR_441_20150320102505_Large.jpg)
Edwardson, Åke
1953 -
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of lit...
Further reading![Portrait image of M.W. Craven](images/writer/7411/5e789e3174fe84458a6af4b152c1ba1fc974b2ef11a23.jpg)
Craven, M.W.
1968 -
British crime writer, born in Carlisle in Cumbria, England. When M.W. (Michael William) ‘Mike’ Craven was still a child, the...
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