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Sample of authors
Clancy, Tom
The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal Service and his mother worked in a store’s credit department. He was educated at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland, and at Loyola College, graduating with a degree in English Literature in 1969.
Tom Clancy specialised in novels about high-tech m...
Literary figures
Solar Pons
Gender: Male
He is tall and thin and very sharp-witted, the master detective who lives at 7B Praed Street in London, and who solves cases together with Dr Lyndon Parker. This sounds very similar to Sherlock Holmes, and it is: August Derleth wrote a large number of Sherlock-Holmes pastiches, primarily in the form of short stories, about Solar Pons, who does, however, have a somewhat lighter personality of his...