Kipling, Rudyard
1865 - 1936

British author born as Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay where his father was the Principal as well as the Professor of...

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Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007

Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...

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Manning, Olivia
1908 - 1980

The British novelist and short story writer Olivia Mary Manning was born in Portsmouth in 1908 (although some sources say...

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Reilly, Helen
1891 - 1962

Critics often regard Helen Reilly as one of the most important female American crime writers of the 1930s. One reason for...

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