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Wainwright, John William
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Author John William Wainwright was born in 1921. During World War II, he served as a rear gunner. Afterwards, he worked as a policeman in Yorkshire for twenty years. He wrote eighty novels between 1965 and 1992. Wainwright published 78 crime novels, a short-story collection and four non-fiction works, including two autobiographical volumes, Tail-End Charlie and Wainwright's Beat; a career guide, Shall I Be a Policeman? (1967), and a home security handbook, Guard Your Castle. One of his most popular novels is Brainwash (1977), upon which the movies Garde à vue and Under Suspicion (2000 film) are based. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Jack Ripley. He passed away in September 1995.
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