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Sample of authors
Allbeury, Ted
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father was an army officer who was killed a few days before the end of the First World War. His mother moved with her two children first to Essex and later to Allbeury’s paternal grandparents in Birmingham where he first attended the Slade Primary School at Erdington and later the K...
Literary figures
Paul Beck
Gender: Male
This English private detective – well known in his day – is a well-built middle-aged man with blue eyes, sideburns and a friendly demeanour: he could be mistaken for a retired milkman, explains author M. McDonnell Bodkin. Paul Beck is a respected detective, and in 1909 he marries his professional colleague, Dora Myrl. Already two years later, their now adult son Paul Beck Jr. solves his first cas...