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Sample of authors
Wheatley, Dennis
The British author and wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of the foremost 20th century authors of thrillers and occult novels. He was born in south London to a family that owned a wine business. He started at Dulwich College, London, in 1908, but he was expelled a year later for his attitude to his teachers and interest in everything that did not have anything to do with his formal...
Literary figures
Peter Pascoe
Gender: Male
The well-educated, well brought-up, intelligent but somewhat unimaginative detective Peter Pascoe is the permanent companion to his brusque boss Andy Dalziel in the detective stories by Reginald Hill. Pascoe has problems: apart from Dalziel, he also has a father who has never been able to accept that his son become a policeman instead of a farmer, and he has a wife, Ellie – they have a child t...