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Howard Engel

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April 02, 1931 in Canada

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Howard Engel CM (born April 2, 1931) is a Canadian mystery writer and CBC producer who resides in Toronto, Ontario. He is well known to Canadian readers for his series of Benny Cooperman detective novels, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario (which strongly resembles the real city of St. Catharines, Ontario, where Engel was born). Engel is a founder of Crime Writers of Canada.

From 1962 to 1978 he was married to Marian Engel, a noted Canadian writer of literary fiction who died in 1985. They had two children, twins Charlotte and William, born in 1965. Charlotte currently is with Bravo Canada, and William works for Reels 4 Realty. Engel subsequently married Canadian novelist Janet Hamilton. The couple have one...more

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Books by Howard Engel

Average rating: 3.40 · 420 ratings · 93 reviews · 25 distinct works

	The Man Who Forgot How To Read 3.10 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Memory Book by Howard Engel, Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Murder in Montparnasse: A Mystery of Literary Paris 3.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Suicide Murders: A Benny Cooperman Mystery 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look At Hangmen, Headsmen, And Their Kind 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ransom Game 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	East Of Suez 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cooperman Variations 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir by Howard Engel, Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Series by Howard Engel

Benny Cooperman (12 books)
by Howard Engel

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“Membaca adalah tulang dan sumsum, limpa dan darah bagiku.”
― Howard Engel

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