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Edwards, Martin

Although he has written nearly twenty crime novels, plus a couple of collections of short stories in the same genre, British author, solicitor, editor and literary historian Martin Edwards is probably best known for his non-fiction books on the genre, and for the anthologies he has compiled. He is considered one of the leading British authorities on classical crime literature, especially on...

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George Crowder

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He was a successful prosecutor and politician, but when George Crowder finds out that a man he had got sentenced to death was innocent, he fled from everything to live alone in the forests of Connecticut. He only sees his nephew, twelve-year-old Joey Trimble, who calls him Uncle George. But when necessary he nevertheless turns up and solves murder cases in books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym för ...

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