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Collins, Wilkie

The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a number of short stories and plays. T.S. Eliot later described his novel The Moonstone (1868) as "the world's first, longest and best detective story". Collins was one of the most popular authors of his time, both at home and abroad. He was close to Charles Dickens and a notorious...

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Lacy, Ed

Crime writer Ed Lacy, pseudonym for journalist Leonard ‘Len’ S. Zinberg, was born in New York. When he was little, his parents got divorced and he moved with his mother to her new husband, also in New York. Little is known about their son’s childhood and private life, but during the 1920s he studied at the College of the City of New York. In the 1930s, he led a wandering life, travelled around in...

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