Paul Halter

Paul Halter is a writer of crime fiction known for his locked room mysteries. Halter pursued technical studies in his youth before joining the French Marines in the hope of seeing the world. Disappointed with the lack of travel, he left the military and, for a while, sold life insurance while augmenting his income playing the guitar in the local dance orchestra. He gave up life insurance for a job in the state-owned telecommunications company, where he works in what is presently known as France Télécom. Halter has been compared with the late John Dickson Carr, generally considered the 20th century master of the locked room genre. Throughout his nearly thirty novels his genre has been almost entirely impossible crimes, and as a critic has sa

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Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English author and journalist, known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories. In 1890, he left his job as a clerk at the People's Palace and joined the editorial staff of the Evening Globe newspaper. The following year, he published a story titled "A Street", which was subsequently published in book form in Tales of Mean Streets (1894). Around this time, Morrison was also producing detective short stories which emulated those of Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Three volumes of Martin Hewitt stories were published before the publication of the novel for which Morrison is most famous: A Child of the Jago (1896). Other less well-received novels and stories foll
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Tetsuya Ayukawa

Tetsuya Ayukawa (鮎川哲也 Ayukawa Tetsuya) was the pen name of a Japanese literary critic and novelist. His real name was Toru Nakagawa. He is noted for his Detective Onitsura Series of mystery stories.
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Leo Bruce

Pseudonym for Rupert Croft-Cooke.
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Edward D. Hoch

Edward D. Hoch is one of the most honored mystery writers of all time.

* 1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America): "The Oblong Room", The Saint Mystery Magazine, July 1967
* 1998 Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention): "One Bag of Coconuts", EQMM, November 1997
* 2001 Anthony Award (Bouchercon): "The Problem of the Potting Shed", EQMM, July 2000
* 2007 Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award (awarded 2008): "The Theft of the Ostracized Ostrich", EQMM, June 2007
* Lifetime Achievement Award (Private Eye Writers of America), 2000
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* Lifetime Achievement Award (Bouchercon), 2001
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Freeman Wills Crofts

Born in Dublin of English stock, Freeman Wills Crofts was educated at Methodist and Campbell Colleges in Belfast and at age 17 he became a civil engineering pupil, apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley D Wise who was the chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR).

In 1899 he became a fully fledged railway engineer before becoming a district engineer and then chief assistant engineer for the BNCR.

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Yukito Ayatsuji

(Japanese: 綾辻行人)

'Yukito Ayatsuji' is the original creator of Another. He is a famous writer of mystery and Japanese detective fiction. He is also one of the writers that demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self reflective elements. He is married to Fuyumi Ono, author of The Twelve Kingdoms and creator of Ghost Hunt, Juuni Kokuki, and the author for a few other manga.
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Derek Howe Smith

Derek Howe Smith or Derek Smith.
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Janice Hallett

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Kiki Tsiligeridou

H Κική Τσιλιγγερίδου γεννήθηκε στην Τσεχία, μεγάλωσε και σπούδασε στην Ελλάδα, εργάστηκε ως δημοσιογράφος σε πολλά Μέσα, έντυπα και μη (εφημερίδες, περιοδικά, ραδιόφωνο, τηλεόραση), ενώ επί πολλά χρόνια ήταν δημοσιογράφος της Δημοτικής Τηλεόρασης Θεσσαλονίκης (ρεπόρτερ, και παρουσιάστρια ειδήσεων και ενημερωτικών εκπομπών). Από το καλοκαίρι του 2017 ζει μόνιμα στην Πράγα.

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Derek Howe Smith or Derek Smith.
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