Writer. Born Phyllis Dorothy James in Oxford. Best known for her crime novels, many of them featuring the detective Adam Dalgliesh. Created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991.
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B. Traven
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
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C. B. Fry
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Percy Fitzgerald, FSA
Sculptor, painter and author. Born Ireland. The picture source website has a second picture of Fitzgerald, sadly no more flattering than this one.
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W. H. Smith - W2
W2, Hyde Park Street, 12
This house probably looked OK when it was part of a terrace but on its own it just looks weird.
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