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Sample of authors
Walters, Minette
Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father was an army officer and her mother an artist. The family moved frequently due to the father’s profession, and Walters was mostly brought up on military bases. After her father had died of kidney failure in 1960, Walters attended the Abbey School at Reading, Berkshire, for a yea...
Literary figures
Abner
Gender: Male
His last name is never mentioned, but in the backwoods of 19th-century Virginia he is known and respected as Uncle Abner. In a series of classic detective stories by Melville Davisson Post, collected in two volumes, he solves strange crimes using common sense, life experience and his faith in God. He is an older man, big and burly, with a deep voice and a gray beard, and always has the Bible in...