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Portrait image of Lynn Shepherd Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)

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Shepherd, Lynn

The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that primarily were based upon classic novels from the 19th century. She is reticent about her private life and her background, but it is known that she studied Literature at Oxford University and started working with marketing and advertising for various firms in London. In 2000 she...

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Portrait image of E.W. Hornung Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906

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Hornung, E.W.

The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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