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Lathen, Emma

Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...

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Craven, M.W.

British crime writer, born in Carlisle in Cumbria, England. When M.W. (Michael William) ‘Mike’ Craven was still a child, the family moved to Newcastle in Tyne and Wear, where he grew up. As a 16-year-old, he tired of school, and – mainly by chance – joined the army. He spent the next ten years moving from place to place in military service, but says himself that most of his time was occupied with...

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