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Sample of authors
Bradley, Alan
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one hundred kilometres from Toronto. His father left the family when the author was a small child. He was a sickly child and learned to read at an early age. He studied engineering, specialising in electronic systems for television and radio, and eventually moved to Saskatoon,...
Literary figures
Melville Fairr
Gender: Male
It is hard to believe that New Yorker Melville Fairr is a successful private detective: he is little, with a friendly but nondescript face and a quiet voice – and he is grey: grey hair, grey eyes, always grey suits. He would rather listen than talk, but comes to quick and logical conclusions in three crime novels that Michael Venning (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) has written about him.