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Langton, Jane
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- Her first book was The Minuteman Murder. Her protagonists are Homer Kelly of the Middlesex County DA's office, and Mary Morgan, Concord librarian.
Citations:
1. The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers, by John C. Carr, 1983, Houghton Mifflin. Complete chapter interview.
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Latham, Emma
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- Emma Lathen is the pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart. Both women met at Harvard University in the fifties. They joined forces, entered a mystery writing contest and lost, and then their first novel Banking on Death was published in 1961.
Citations:
1. 'The Case of the Wall Street Mysteries,' by Max Hall, Murder Ink, Dilys Winn, ed, Workman Publishing, 1977, pg. 55.
2. The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers, by John C. Carr, 1983, Houghton Mifflin. Complete chapter interview.
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Le Carre, John
(Author) |
- Creator of the character Smiley.
Citations:
1. 'John Le Carre's Circus,' by Harry D. Dawson, The Armchair Detective, Volume 13, Spring 1980, Number 2, pg 150.
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Lem, Stanislaw
(Author) |
- Polish science fiction writer. Author of The Investigation, Avon Books, 1976.
Citations:
1. 'Threats to Rationalism: John Fowles, Stanislaw Lem, and the Detective Story, The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 13, Winter 1980, Number 1, page 4-7.
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Leonard, Elmore
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- American author of short stories and novels.
Citations:
1. 'An Interview With Elmore Leonard', by Joel M. Lyczak, The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 16, Summer 1983, Number 3, pages 235-240
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Linington, Elizabeth
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- Under the epseudonym Dell Shannon wrote books abaout Lt. Luis Mendoza; as Leslie Egan created Detective Vic Varallo, and Jesse Falkentein, and under her own name created Sargeant Ivor Maddox.
Citations:
1. 'An Interview With Elizabeth Linington,' by Margaret J. King, The Armchair Detective, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1980, pg. 299-307.
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Lovesy, Peter
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- Born in Whitton, Middlesex, England, on September 10, 1936, and educated at Hampton Grammar School and the University of Reading.
Citations:
1. 1. 'The Historian: Once Upon A Crime,' by Peter Lovesy, Murder Ink, Dilys Winn, ed, Workman Publishing, 1977, pg. 475.
2. The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers, by John C. Carr, 1983, Houghton Mifflin. Complete chapter interview.
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