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Sample of authors
Brown, Dan
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks, and his mother was a cantor. Both were active in their local Episcopalian church. Their three sons inherited their mother’s love of music and their father’s interest in puzzles, mysticism, ciphers and codes; there is an abundance of these in Dan Brown’s books...
Literary figures
Am Hunter
Gender: Male
Pudgy, good-humoured and middle aged Ambrose ”Am” Hunter works at a travelling funfair (when he’s not playing poker). He used to be, among other things, a private detective, which is why his nephew, Ed Hunter, seeks him out: Ed’s father – Am’s drunken brother – has been murdered. Together they solve the case, as well as a number of other cases, in a series of highly praised, humorous and soft-boil...