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Groller, Balduin
At the end of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, Austrian author Adalbert Goldscheider wrote a large number or novels, short stories and comedies under the pseudonym Balduin Groller. The books that received the most attention were the crime short stories about Dagobert Trostler, known as ‘The Sherlock Holmes of Vienna’: In Queen’s Quorum (1951), Ellery Queen lists Trostler as one of t...
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Hodgson, William Hope
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and brothers. He became a sailor at the age of thirteen and eventually received his mate’s certificate. Life at sea did not suit him, however, and in 1899 he settled in Blackburn where he opened a school of physical culture. Hodgson had to work extra as a reporter and p...