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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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Holt, Anne
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She then worked as a news anchor for the Norwegian broadcasting corporation news programme Dagsrevyen and as a news reporter. She has also worked for the Oslo Police Department (1988–1990). In 1991, she opened her own law firm. When Thorbjørn Jagland, the then prime minister, pr...
