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Treat, Lawrence
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later exploited by, among others, Ed McBain. Treat was born Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (he formally changed his name in 1940) in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1924. He then attended Columbia University, New York, where he graduated with a degree in...
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Walters, Minette
Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father was an army officer and her mother an artist. The family moved frequently due to the father’s profession, and Walters was mostly brought up on military bases. After her father had died of kidney failure in 1960, Walters attended the Abbey School at Reading, Berkshire, for a yea...
