Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Crime

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Ian Fleming, English Author
(1908-1964)

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Name: Ian Fleming
Birth: May 28, 1908, Mayfair, London, England, UK
Death: August 12, 1964, Canterbury, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English author; creator of the James Bond series

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Leslie Charteris, British-Chinese Author
(1907-1993)

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Name: Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin
Known as: Leslie Charteris
Birth: May 12, 1907, Singapore
Death: April 15, 1993, Windsor, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British-Chinese author of adventure fiction; creator of Simon Templar ("The Saint")

Manfred Bennington Lee, American Crime Writer
(1905-1971)

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Name: Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky
Known as: Manfred Bennington Lee
Birth: January 11, 1905, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Death: April 3, 1971, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author of crime stories; half of a pair of cousins who together created the fictional character and equally-fictional writer "Ellery Queen." (His cousin's name was Daniel Nathan, pen named Frederic Dannay)

John D. MacDonald, American Crime Writer
(1916-1986)

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Name: John D. MacDonald
Birth: July 24, 1916, Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: December 28, 1986, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American crime novelist and short story writer; the Travis McGee series

Donald E. Westlake, American Crime Writer
(1933-2008)

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Name: Donald E. Westlake
Birth: July 12, 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Death: December 31, 2008, San Tancho, Mexico
Language: English
Who he was: American author of crime stories; the Parker and John Dortmunder series; The Hunter; The Grifters; The Stepfather

Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian Crime Author
(1915-1983)

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Name: Kenneth Millar
Known as: Ross Macdonald
Birth: December 13, 1915, Los Gatos, California, USA
Death: July 11, 1983, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American-Canadian author of crime stories; the Lew Archer series

Dashiell Hammett, American Crime Writer
(1894-1961)

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Name: Samuel Dashiell Hammett
Known as: Dashiell Hammett
Birth: May 27, 1894, St. Mary's County, Maryland, USA
Death: January 10, 1961, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American crime writer who created the characters Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon); Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man); the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse); also wrote short stories
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Dorothy L. Sayers, English Crime Writer
(1893-1957)

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Name: Dorothy L. Sayers
Birth: June 13, 1893, Oxford, England, UK
Death: December 17, 1957, Witham, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English crime writer; poet; playwright; essayist; created the character Lord Peter Wimsey

Raymond Chandler, British-American Crime Novelist
(1888-1959)

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Name: Raymond Chandler
Birth: July 23, 1888, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: March 26, 1959, La Jolla, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: British-American crime novelist; created Philip Marlowe, and wrote The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

G. K. Chesterton, English Writer
(1874-1936)

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Name: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Known as: G. K. Chesterton
Birth: May 29, 1874, Kensington, London, England, UK
Death: June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, lay theologian, biographer, and critic; novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday; the Father Brown stories; theological works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish Writer
(1859-1930)

Just the Facts:

Name: Arthur Conan Doyle
Birth: May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Death: July 7, 1930, Crowborough, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: Scottish writer; creator of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger

Horace Bell, American Author and Lawman
(1830-1918)

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Name: Horace Bell
Birth: December 11, 1830, New Albany, Indiana, USA
Death: June 29, 1918, Berkeley, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author and lawman; Reminiscences of a Ranger
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

P. D. James, English Crime Author
(1920-2014)

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Name: Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park
Known as: P. D. James
Birth: August 3, 1920, Oxford, England, UK
Death: November 27, 2014, Oxford, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English author of crime stories; the Adam Dalgliesh series

James Agee, American Author
(1909-1955)

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Name: James Agee
Birth: November 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Death: May 16, 1955, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author, poet, and critic; A Death in the Family; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with photographer Walker Evans); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1958)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Baogong An, Chinese Detective Stories
(1594)

Judge Bao in a Sichuan opera performance

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Name: Baogong An
Known as: The Cases of Judge Bao
Dates: 1594
Place: China
Language: Chinese
What it is: Chinese detective stories from the Yuan Dynasty
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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James M. Cain, American Author
(1892-1977)

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Name: James M. Cain
Birth: July 1, 1892, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Death: October 27, 1977, University Park, Maryland, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author and journalist; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese Crime Writer
(1894-1965)

Just the Facts:

Name: Tarō Hirai
Known as: Edogawa Ranpo
Birth: October 21, 1894, Nabari, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Death: July 28, 1965, Tokyo (?), Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he was: Japanese crime novelist and short story writer; "Private Detective Kogoro Akechi" series

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John le Carré, British Author
(1931 - )

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Name: David John Moore Cornwell
Known as: John le Carré
Birth: October 19, 1931, Poole, UK
Language: English
Who he is: British author of espionage novels who wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People; The Night Manager; The Constant Gardener

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Dick Francis, British Crime Writer
(1920-2010)

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Name: Dick Francis
Birth: October 31, 1920, Lawrenny, UK
Death: February 14, 2010, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Language: English
Who he was: British crime writer whose horse-racing-related novels include Dead Cert; Nerve; Whip Hand; Under Orders

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Tony Hillerman, American Author
(1925-2008)

Just the Facts:

Name: Tony Hillerman
Birth: May 27, 1925, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, USA
Death: October 26, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author of detective novels and non-fiction works who wrote the "Joe Leaphorn" and "Jim Chee" series (The Blessing Way etc.) about Navajo Tribal Police

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