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Post, Melville Davisson
Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer to appear after Edgar Allan Poe. Post may even be unique in the sense that he through his books were able to influence the law as he devised plots that exposed weaknesses in current legislation, which led to discussions that in turn resulted in amendments.
Post came from a...
Friedrich Glauser in Münsingen 1931 Limmat Verlag CC BY-SA 3.0
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Glauser, Friedrich
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland. Glauser's life can best be described as a series of disasters. His mother died when he was four years old, his father remarried and young Friedrich had a hard time adapting to his father's strict regime. He was sent to boarding school in Switzerland and was sent down, officially...
