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Carr, John Dickson
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...
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Grue, Anna
Danish writer Anna Grue is an editor and journalist whose crime novels have been very favorably received in her native country and abroad – although she is strangely unknown in Sweden. Grue was born in Nykøbing in 1957. Both her parents were physicians. The family moved on to Randers in 1960, then to Aalborg in 1969. At home, her parents openly discussed diseases and deaths in a professional wa...