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Sample of authors
Allbeury, Ted
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father was an army officer who was killed a few days before the end of the First World War. His mother moved with her two children first to Essex and later to Allbeury’s paternal grandparents in Birmingham where he first attended the Slade Primary School at Erdington and later the K...
Literary figures
Joseph French
Gender: Male
With patience, thorough and determined routine work, Detective Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard has broken a long row of false alibis and exposed a similarly long row of murderers. He is short in stature, well-built, likes to wear tweeds and is a typical English gentleman. He spends his free time with his wife (they don’t have any children) and likes to potter – like his creator F. Wills C...