Beckett, Simon
1960 -

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...

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Innes, Hammond
1913 - 1998

Pseudonym used by the British novelist Ralph Hammond-Innes who was born in Horsham, Sussex, to Scottish parents. He...

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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -

The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...

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Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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