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Portrait image of Edmund Crispin Photo: Stuart Black / Hulton Archive via Getty Images (1953)

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Crispin, Edmund

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of detective stories born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and St. John’s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages in 1943. While in Oxford he befriended Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and he tra...

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Portrait image of Lynn Shepherd Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)

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Shepherd, Lynn

The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that primarily were based upon classic novels from the 19th century. She is reticent about her private life and her background, but it is known that she studied Literature at Oxford University and started working with marketing and advertising for various firms in London. In 2000 she...

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