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Sample of authors
Blackwood, Algernon
British writer Algernon Blackwood was born in the South East London district of Shooter’s Hill. In 1871 his family relocated to nearby Crayford. Both parents were stout Calvinists. In his teens, Blackwood broke away from their faith and embraced Buddhist teachings, thus forming a life-long penchant for oriental mysticism, occultism and theosophy. He studied at Wellington College in Berkshire a...
Literary figures
Henry Arnold
Gender: Male
Patient, pipe-smoking Scotland Yard detective inspector who solves a whole row of cases in detective stories by Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street). He has an everyday appearance, and little is known about his private life. Henry Arnold often investigates the same cases as private detective Desmond Merrion, and usually they work together. They are generally of completely different...