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B.A. Steadman

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in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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I taught English for many years and completed my debut novel, Death and Deception, when I escaped the classroom and could finally stop marking essays.

These days I write, walk, and bend a bit in yoga. I have a husband and two cats, and live in the East Devon countryside. I am a passionate supporter of wildlife, and am vice-chair of trustees at a local animal sanctuary - after all, animals have no voice but ours to speak for them.

With the publication of the second book in the Dan Hellier Crime series, I guess I'm planning several years of adventures for the team in the apparently peaceful city of Exeter, England. As I live in a small village, where the usual crime rate is zero, it was with great pleasure that I set the books in and around Exe ...more

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The telegraph messenger industry and its disappearance from modern communication

1. The Telegraph Messenger Industry

Before telephones and digital communication, businesses and governments relied on telegraph networks operated by skilled messengers and code specialists. In the late nineteenth century, companies such as Western Union employed tens of thousands of operators who transmitted messages in Morse code across continents. The telegraph enabled near-instant communication

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