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Sample of authors
MacBride, Stuart
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where he attended Middlefield Academy and Westhill Academy. He went on to study architecture at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh without graduating. He has worked with scrubbing toilets on an oil rig and he was a graphic designer, actor, undertaker and computer programmer before...
Literary figures
Jack Fenner
Gender: Male
Private detective in Boston, where he shares an office with lawyer Frank Quinn. He was created by George Harmon Coxe, who describes the former police detective Jack Fenner as a sinewy, tough man of average height, with a square face and thinning dark hair. He is something of a dress snob, is careful with his appearance and makes sure he always has nicely polished shoes. He often works together...