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Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...
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Roderick Alleyn
Gender: Male
His titled parents wanted him to become a diplomat; instead Roderick Alleyn chose to become a police officer and work for Scotland Yard. In more than 30 novels by Ngaio Marsh, he solves cases in a highly cultivated manner, often side-by-side with his wife, portrait-painter Agatha Troy. He is tall, dark and ‘stylish’ and is just as much at home in society as with the inhabitants of small country to...