Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...

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Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929

Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...

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MacDonald, John D.
1916 - 1986

The American author John Dann MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father (who was of Scottish ancestry) pursued...

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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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