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Allbeury, Ted
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father was an army officer who was killed a few days before the end of the First World War. His mother moved with her two children first to Essex and later to Allbeury’s paternal grandparents in Birmingham where he first attended the Slade Primary School at Erdington and later the K...
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Wells, Carolyn
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
