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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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Villar, Domingo
1971 -
Domingo Villar is a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia. He now lives in Madrid where hosts a radio show about food....
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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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Davis, Lindsey
1949 -
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...
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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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