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Harris, Robert
Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very young Harris decided that he too wanted to work with text and print. The family moved to Leicestershire when he was nine. He attended Belvoir High School at Bottesford and 1971–75 King Edward VII School at Melton Mowbray. He then went on to read English and history at Selwyn C...
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Bailey, H.C.
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the golden age of the 1920s and '30s. The others are Agatha Christie, F. Wills Crofts, R. Austin Freeman and Dorothy L. Sayers. But he began his career by writing historic fiction.
H.C. Bailey was born in London where he lived for most of his life. After graduating from Corpus...