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Sample of authors
La Plante, Lynda
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her writing career is an unusual one. Several of her books are based on television screenplays and films, others were originally novels that were later adapted, normally for television. She has won a string of awards and was awarded an OBE in 2008.
La Plante was raised in and...
Literary figures
Blotto (Devereux) Lyminster
Gender: Male
The honourable Devereux Lyminster, better known as ‘Blotto’, comes from a respected noble family. He is well-built, strong and handsome, a famous cricketer and has a brain like a hen. When it comes to solving murder cases in a series of farcical crime novels by Simon Brett, which are set in the 1920s, he thus often plays the role of a stupid ‘Watson’ to his beautiful, smart sister Honoria, called...