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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...

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Philip Trent

Gender: Male

Despite E.C. Bentley only having written three books about the young English artist, Philip Trent is an important name in crime fiction. He became the model for many amateur detectives in whodunits during the first half of the 20th century. Trent is tall, a bit lanky, has a moustache, is from a good family and is well brought-up. He investigates his cases with great enthusiasm, but doesn’t a...

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