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MacBride, Stuart

Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where he attended Middlefield Academy and Westhill Academy. He went on to study architecture at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh without graduating. He has worked with scrubbing toilets on an oil rig and he was a graphic designer, actor, undertaker and computer programmer before...

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Lord Peter Wimsey

Gender: Male

The English aristocrat (he is the second son of a duke), bibliophile and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is one of the great men of crime fiction and principal character in a long line of classical stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Witty and erudite, he solves crime with the help of logic, his butler, Bunter, and his friend (later brother-in-law) Inspector Charles Parker.

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