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Portrait of Ellis Peters Photo: Philip Dunn/REX / TT (1995)

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Peters, Ellis

Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her novels have been published with both names, equal in size, on the cover. This has caused some confusion in library catalogues and bibliographies.
Edith Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay, Shropshire, near the England/Wales border, and she lived there practically all...

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Henry Poggioli

Gender: Male

Psychogist, philosopher and – not least – criminologist. Dr Henry Poggioli, employed by Ohio State University, is a versatile gentleman who, with the help of psychology, solves mysteries in various place in and outside the USA – albeit rarely in Ohio. Little is known about him personally: he is a bachelor, good-looking, but he ages quite a lot over the years. T.S. Stribling wrote a long series of...

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