Leslie Charteris

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 09, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 11, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 22, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Leslie Charles.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 15, 2022
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - Leslie Charteris Dies; Mystery Writer Was 85.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 30, 2016
	Add new Web site: Official Site of Leslie Charteris.	Grace Young	Sep 04, 2013
	Added new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Leonard Cohen.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 24, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998