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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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Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -
A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...
Further reading![Portrait image of Olivier Truc](images/writer/6719/wm_BR_6350337608fdce69bff48ec674196308bc81255ad254f.jpg)
Truc, Olivier
1964 -
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and...
Further reading![Portrait of Ruth Rendell](images/writer/1427/662a79a13322a942ac43748b9083332fed17464d2a259.jpg)
Rendell, Ruth
1930 - 2015
The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin...
Further reading![Portrait image of John P. Marquand](images/writer/2438/6220df0d03bc0ae36d5e63a1a269dbc40fca7b161ee9a.jpg)
Marquand, John P.
1893 - 1960
The American author John Phillips Marquand was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents were wealthy, but they lost their...
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