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Sample of authors
Pronzini, Bill
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of detective fiction, science fiction, western fiction, thrillers and horror fiction. He is also a renowned expert within these fields, and as such he has edited some hundred anthologies and short story collections by other authors. He has also published a large number of...
Literary figures
Beatrice Lestrange Bradley
Gender: Female
Famous psychologist, honorary PhD at several universities, but eccentric and very unsympathetic. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, resident in Wandles Parva, a little village in Hampshire, is middle-aged, has black hair, a masculine build and a narrow face which can assume a snake-like appearance. She has been married and has children, but she devotes her interest to solving cases in novels by...