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Mosley, Walter

American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish background and his father was Afro-American. Walter Mosley had at first an irregular school life, but his mother encouraged him to read, even classic literature. In 1964, the family moved to Westside in Los Angeles, and in 1970 he matriculated from Alexander Hamilton High...

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Edward Thackeray

Gender: Male

A patient and stoic detective constable at Scotland Yard during the Victorian era. He works side-by-side with his superior Sergeant Cribb in a suite of historical whodunits by Peter Lovesey. Edward Thackeray is dutiful and conscientious, but somewhat lacking in imagination, and he finds it hard to always keep up with Cribb’s reasoning. Besides, he is bad at spelling, which causes a number of e...

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