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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Dora Myrl
Gender: Female
One of the first female private detectives in English crime fiction, a delicate, jolly young lady who looks like a schoolgirl. She tries everything new: already in 1900 she is a seasoned cyclist. Dora Myrl is also such a clever detective that the famous Paul Beck marries her in 1909, and two years later their creator M. McDonnell Bodkin lets the couple’s adult (!) son solve his first case.