English crime fiction writers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Chapters: Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, Raymond Chandler, Edith Pargeter, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Georgette Heyer, Sax Rohmer, Simon Brett, P. D. James, Lindsey Davis, Cecil Day-Lewis, William Matthew Scott, Edgar Wallace, Dorothy L. Sayers, Mark Billingham, John Creasey, Dick Francis, Ronald Knox, R. Austin Freeman, Ruth Rendell, Francis Durbridge, Simon Kernick, Margery Allingham, Leslie Charteris, Lis Howell, Basil Copper, Reginald Hill, Peter Cheyney, H. R. F. Keating, Hubert Phillips, Ernest Bramah, R. J. Ellory, Peter Robinson, E. C. Vivian, Peter Dickinson, Cyril Alington, Jessie Louisa Rickard, Jim Williams, Catherine Sampson, Alan Burridge, Joan Smith, Philip MacDonald, Timothy Williams, Nick Brownlee, Peter James, Paul Winterton, Edmund Crispin, Anthony Read, H. Russell Wakefield, Archibald Thomas Pechey, R. D. Wingfield, Clemence Dane, Maxwell Knight, Peter Lovesey, Sarah Dunant, Maurice Procter, Emery Bonett, Robert Barnard, John Wainwright, David Hewson, Nicola Griffith, Michael Cox, Fidelis Morgan, Richard Whittington-Egan, Frances Fyfield, Mike Butterworth, David Seabrook, Jake Arnott, Andrew Martin, Alan Hunter, P. M. Hubbard, Barbara Nadel, Catherine Aird, Michael Kenyon, Anna Dean, Edwy Searles Brooks, Cyril Hare, Miles Tripp, Anthea Fraser, Margaret Yorke, Simon Beckett, Nicolas Freeling, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Tobias Jones, Josephine Bell, Margaret Murphy, Simon Hall, H. C. Bailey, Robert Furneaux Jordan, James Twining, L C Tyler, Joyce Porter, Stephen Booth, Timothy Holme, David Whitelaw, Ann Granger, Rosemary Aitken, Susan Moody, Caroline Graham, Carter Brown, Gwendoline Butler, Gwen Moffat, Iain Pears, Anne Brooke, Manda Scott, John Rickards, Macdonald Hastings, Jacqueline Winspear, Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico, Dorothy Cannell, Ann Cleeves, Robert Eustace, Faith Martin, W. F. Morris, Jane Adams, Anne Zouroudi, John Grant, Richard Asplin, Keith McCarthy, Laura Wilson, Graham Hurley, Herbert Adams, John Bonett, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Elena Forbes, June Thomson, George Bellairs, Lesley Horton, J. J. Connolly, Celia Dale, Antony Carr. Excerpt: William Matthew Scott (b. Leeds 30 September 1893; d. Herne Bay 7 May 1964), pen name Will Scott, was a British author of stories and books for adults and children, published from 1920 to 1965. Towards the end of his life he was best known for The Cherrys series, written for children and published between 1952 and 1965. However in earlier years he was known for his detective novels, his stage plays which were made into films, notably The Limping Man in 1931 and 1936, and for the 2,000 short stories that he contributed to magazines and newspapers; believed to be a record for the United Kingdom during his lifetime. As of 2011, his books are out of print. Oatland Lane 2011, the site of the demolished Camp Road where Scott was bornWilliam Matthew Scott was born at 128 Camp Road (now Oatland Lane) in Little London, Leeds, Yorkshire on 30 September 1893. Camp Road was demolished in the 1960s. His place of birth was next to the poor Jewish immigrant area of tailors and shoemakers, called the Leylands, in the All Souls district of Leeds. At least until 1911 Scott lived in the working-class areas of Little London and Woodhouse, next to Meanwood Beck. The area has a history of poverty, and within living memory were the Woodhouse cholera epidemic of the 1840s, and the typhoid epidemic in nearby Headingley of 1889. When Scott was born, the m...