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Grant Allen.
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Author Brian Busby, series editor for Canada's
Ricochet Books that is reissuing vintage noir works by Canadian writers, discusses
his choices for the best books of Canadian-born mystery author
Grant Allen (1848–99), who was attended on his deathbed by physician friend and neighbor
Arthur Conan Doyle. Calling Allen "a writer of great imagination . . . [with] memorable characters and . . . a dab hand at clever, intricate plots," Busby acknowledges that he is still working his way through Allen's oeuvre. However, some of his picks are
The Devil's Die (1888), the prize-winning
What's Bred in the Bone (1891), and
Hilda Wade (1900, Allen's work with a nurse sleuth completed posthumously by Conan Doyle).
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