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Sample of authors
Koontz, Dean R.
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a dysfunctional family with a violent, alcoholic father and a suppressed mother. He found comfort in reading and watching movies, and he began to write short stories, which he sold to friends and relatives when he was eight years old. He attended Shippensburg State College (now...
Literary figures
Melville Fairr
Gender: Male
It is hard to believe that New Yorker Melville Fairr is a successful private detective: he is little, with a friendly but nondescript face and a quiet voice – and he is grey: grey hair, grey eyes, always grey suits. He would rather listen than talk, but comes to quick and logical conclusions in three crime novels that Michael Venning (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) has written about him.