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Brodrick, William
The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family emigrated to Vancouver in Canada. For a while, they also lived in Queensland, Australia. In both places, Brodrick attended Catholic schools, and since then the religion has played an important role in his life as well as his writing. He has dual citizenship, British and...
Literary figures
John Stubbs
Gender: Male
British professor of Botany who is worried about becoming dehydrated, so he drinks large quantities of beer. He also solves murders in a highly personal manner in novels by R.T. Campbell (pseudonym for Ruthven Todd). Professor John Stubbs is of late middle age, vain and self-assured, corpulent, has a moustache, smokes a stinking pipe and interrogates witnesses with the sensitivity of a drunken...