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Portrait image of Pierre Boileau Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)

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Boileau, Pierre

Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary...

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Portrait image of Alice LaPlante Photo: Politics and Prose Bookstore (2011) CC BY-SA 2.0

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LaPlante, Alice

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...

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