biography
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| lived:
| (1909–98)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in London, UK. He studied at Colfe's Grammar School and London University, and worked as an advertising copy-writer before turning to writing thrillers, invariably with an espionage background. He published his first novel, The Dark Frontier, in 1936. His best-known books are Epitaph for a Spy (1938), The Mask of Dimitrios (1939), Dirty Story (1967), and The Intercom Conspiracy (1970). He received the Crime Writers' Association Award four times, as well as the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1964). Later books include Here Lies: An Autobiography (1985) and The Story So Far (1993). |
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