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Originally Posted by issybird
Martha Grimes, mentioned in the OP, also is American. I agree that they frequently get it wrong. Then there's Jacqueline Winspear, an English ex-pat, and she gets it wrong, too.
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One author who does better than most is Elizabeth Peters. Her "Amelia Peabody" series has a very good British feel to it, although she makes the occasional mistake (such as calling a railway a "railroad", which nobody in Britain would ever do).