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Crispin, Edmund
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of detective stories born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and St. John’s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages in 1943. While in Oxford he befriended Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and he tra...
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Graham, Caroline
The withdrawn British novelist and playwright Caroline Graham is best known for her seven police novels about Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby who operates in the fictional region of Midsomer in central England. The popular television series Midsomer Murders that has aired since 1997 are based on her books.
Caroline Graham was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her mother died when Caroline was six...
