Margaret Yorke

Margaret Yorke (1924-2012) was a renowned British crime fiction writer born Margaret Beda Nicholson in Surrey, England. She spent her childhood in Dublin before returning to England in 1937, and later worked as a librarian at Oxford before launching her writing career in the late 1950s. She published over 40 novels, chaired the Crime Writers' Association from 1979-1980, and received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 1999.

Compton, Surrey, England Jan 30, 1924 Wikipedia
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