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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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Parsons, Julie
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Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
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James, Peter
1948 -
The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack...
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Kepler, Lars
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Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when...
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