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Barclay, Linwood

Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...

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MacDougal Duff

Gender: Male

Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...

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