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Keating, H.R.F.

Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the Merchant Taylor’s school in London between 1940 and 1944 and served in the military until 1948 when he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. Keating then worked at various newspapers, mainly in London. He started to work for The Times in 1...

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Tom Maybridge

Gender: Male

English detective chief inspector, who is the main character in a series of novels by Barbara M. Gill. In the first, he is a somewhat anonymous but important figure in a police department, but already in the second book he is married to literary scholar Meg and – as in the third – the sole protagonist. Tom Maybridge is a patient investigator, he wears spectacles and his rather piercing gaze is a g...

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