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Mike Hollow


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I first got into print when I was eleven. A boys’ comic published a feeble limerick I’d sent them and paid me five shillings, a fat sum at that age. But the postal order was nothing compared with seeing my words in print.

After that I kept writing – teenage poems for a late-1960s “underground magazine”, then grown-up poems, and later a happy mix of copywriting, journalism, editing and translating. All ways of getting paid for playing with words.

My CV? I was born in 1953 in the Essex County Borough of West Ham – home of the Blitz Detective – on the eastern edge of London. I grew up mainly in Romford and went to the Royal Liberty School, then studied Russian and French at Cambridge University.

My first job was translating for the BBC, and I did ...more

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Direct Hit (The Blitz Detec...
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Direct Hit Fifth Column The Custom House Murder The Stratford Murder The Dockland Murder The Pimlico Murder The Camden Murder
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“has a brother, Joe Ramsey. He’s a local businessman, and I believe”
― Mike Hollow, The Custom House Murder
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