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Portrait of Rubem Fonseca Photo: Hector Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images (2003)

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Fonseca, Rubem

Brazilian author, born in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, but at the age of 7 moved to Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca gained a degree in Law at Rio de Janeiro’s federal university, UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). In 1952 he started a career in the police service, first as a patrolling police officer, advancing quickly in rank to eventually become police commissioner, one of the highest p...

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Portrait image of Martin Edwards Photo: Louis Tarpin (2018)
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Edwards, Martin

Although he has written nearly twenty crime novels, plus a couple of collections of short stories in the same genre, British author, solicitor, editor and literary historian Martin Edwards is probably best known for his non-fiction books on the genre, and for the anthologies he has compiled. He is considered one of the leading British authorities on classical crime literature, especially on...

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