1836 Brett Harte – US writer (The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar) He lived in London for a time, after serving as US Consul to Glasgow. He seldom wrote detective fiction, but his story The Stolen Cigar-Case, featuring Hemlock Jones, was described by Ellery Queen as “probably the best parody of Sherlock Holmes ever written” That sounds interesting. I wonder if you can still get it somewhere. 1984 Truman Capote, age 59 - Author (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and actor (Murder by Death) I read where Harper Lee did most of the research for In Cold Blood for Capote and he never added her name to the credits of it.
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