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Sample of authors
Cornwell, Patricia D.
American crime writer, born in Miami, Florida as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. Shortly before graduating from Davidson College in 1980, she married her former English professor, Charles Cornwell. By then she had already started working as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer. She soon became the newspaper’s crime rep...
Literary figures
Filip Collin
Gender: Male
A very eloquent, smart and worldly Swedish adventurer and gentleman thief, who eventually also turns out to be a skilled detective. Filip Collin, who often calls himself Professor Pelotard, together with his companions – the Frenchman Lavertisse and the Englishman Graham – is mainly engaged in financial crime in a number of books written by Frank Heller (pseudonym for Gunnar Serner).