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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Jansson, Anna
1958 -

The Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson was born in Visby on the island of Gotland. In 1979, she moved to Örebro where she ...

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Klönne, Gisa
1964 -

The German author Gisa Klönne was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Darmstadt. She wanted to become an author from an early ...

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Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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