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Paul Whitehouse
YORKSHIRE author Simon Beckett has been shortlisted for the country's biggest crime-writing award which could bring him overnight recognition after 14 years working in relative obscurity.
His latest novel, The Chemistry of Death, was published in the spring and has already proved a hit, with the publisher now working to translate it into 13 languages and planning a launch in America later this year.
But Mr Beckett, 46, of Ranmoor, Sheffield, has now been shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, the country's top crime writers' award that this year has an increased prize of [Pounds]20,000...