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Sample of authors
Slaughter, Karin
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father worked as a car salesman. She went to college for two years without graduating and then ran a small design company before she made her debut as a crime novelist in 2001.
Her first book, Blindsighted, was translated into some thirty languages and became a major bestseller in...
Literary figures
Martin Hewitt
Gender: Male
Private detective and former legal clerk in London around the end of the 19th century. In contrast to the contemporary Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt is ordinary, jovial and social. He has a round, friendly face and behaves like a gentleman towards ladies – although he doesn’t have any closer lady friends. He is a skilled problem-solver and the main character in four books by Arthur Morrison, who...