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Henry Raymond Fitzwilliam Keating was educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and Trinity College, Dublin. He has been chief reviewer of crime, espionage and suspense fiction for The Times of London from 1967. He has also been prominent in the affairs of the Crime Writers7 Association, of which he was chairman from 1970-1971.
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Edmund Crispin born 1921 was the pen name of Robert Bruce Montgomery.
He went to Oxford university and this experience gave him the background for his mystery novels. Mostly academic mysteries the main series character is Gervase Fen an Oxford University Professor of English.
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R Austin Freeman The Magic Casket First Edition
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STILL DEAD is a detective-story by a rare writer who is not only a master of the craft but is also a master of the English, language. Set in Scotland, it tells how young Colin Reiver, recklessly driving a new sports car, is responsible for a fatal accident to a child, but is acquitted at law.
Eugene Hastain created some of the most evocative jacket artwork of the Golden Age period
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A Guide to Collecting Books Published By Hodder & Stoughton
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Gregory Spring-Benson was an idle young man with no fixed desire to do anything — except possibly to drink Burgundy, for which he had a nice taste. The harsh reality of life, the necessity to do something in order to survive, he contrived to avoid by being incredibly self-centred and impervious to the criticism of his friends and the abuse of his creditors.
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Richard Hull was born on 6th September, 1896, and educated at Rugby, obtaining a mathematical exhibition on leaving. The First World War prevented his going to Cambridge.
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Information about the writer Dilwyn Rees
Real name Glyn Edmund Daniel was born 23 April 1914 and died in 1986
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