Hayder, Mo
1962 - 2021

The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic...

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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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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Whitehead, Colson
1969 -

American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...

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