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ashfordshe | 17:00 Sat 24th Dec 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Which American novelist is so keen to avoid publicity he once dived out of an apartment window in Mexico City to escape a photographer. He ran away into the moutains where he hid for long enough to grow a moustache and acquire the local nickname "Pancho Villa"


Which golden age crime writer named her detective after the founder of the South London public school whose picture gallery she had visited the day before starting her first book.

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Not sure but it might be William S Burroughs

Dame Ngaio Marsh's 'Inspector Alleyn Mysteries'


Edward Alleyn was the founder of Dulwich College in 1619

Try J D Salinger for the novelist. Forget Burroughs.
i've got thomas pynchon for pancho villa
pond50 You're right.The article I read was comparing him to Salinger. I'll try thinking first the next time.
Ngaio Marsh and Thomas Pynchon
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I think you will find that the answer to the first question os Scott McLemee
I think you will find that the first answer is Scott McLemee

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