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Edwards, Martin
Although he has written nearly twenty crime novels, plus a couple of collections of short stories in the same genre, British author, solicitor, editor and literary historian Martin Edwards is probably best known for his non-fiction books on the genre, and for the anthologies he has compiled. He is considered one of the leading British authorities on classical crime literature, especially on...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...