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Treat, Lawrence
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later exploited by, among others, Ed McBain. Treat was born Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (he formally changed his name in 1940) in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1924. He then attended Columbia University, New York, where he graduated with a degree in...
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Barclay, Linwood
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...