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Billingham, Mark

The British author Mark Philip David Billingham was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, and grew up near Birmingham where he attended King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys at King’s Heath. His father left the family when Mark was six years old. When his mother remarried eight years later, she and her husband moved away. Mark Billingham was then seventeen years old and found accommodation near his s...

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Clinton Driffield

Gender: Male

He is a chief constable in England, aged about 35, a small thin man, sun-tanned, with a sharp eye, decisive mouth and neatly-trimmed moustache. He is usually accompanied by his ‘Watson’, Squire Wendover. Sir Clifford Driffield likes to dress conventionally, and has remarkably well-manicured hands and good teeth, according to author J.J. Connington (pseudonym for A.W. Stewart).

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