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Sample of authors
Gardner, John (f. 1926)
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He joined the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War and in 1943 the Royal Marin...
Literary figures
Henry Tibbett
Gender: Male
He starts as an ordinary detective inspector, but works his way up to become a chief superintendent with the London Police, in a suite of novels by Patricia Moyes. Henry Tibbett is a friendly, unobtrusive gentleman with an ordinary appearance, but he is also a skilled police officer greatly respected by his colleagues. He does, however, get quite a lot of help from his wife, Emmy, who quite...