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Osman, Richard
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing breakthrough with his first novel, the detective story The Thursday Murder Club (2020). The film rights were sold quickly, and there were immediate plans for a TV-series.
He was born in Billericay in Essex, but grew up in Cuckfield, close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex. When he was...
Literary figures
Lucius Leffing
Gender: Male
He loves everything Victorian, and has furnished his house in accordance with that. Lucius Leffing is an occult amateur detective, a ‘ghost-hunter’ who combats evil and supernatural adversaries in a number of books, primarily collections of short stories. He is unobtrusive, tall and slim, with a finely-chiselled face complete with moustache. Like his creator, Joseph Payne Brenna, he lives in New H...