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Sample of authors
McKinty, Adrian
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended Victoria Primary School and Carrick Grammar School. He went on to read law at the University of Warwick and later politics and philosophy at Oxford where he met his future wife, Leah Garrett. After McKinty had graduated in 1993, he and his American wife moved to Harlem, New York,...
Literary figures
Dickson McCunn
Gender: Male
The author John Buchan’s most original detective is the retired grocer Dickson McCunn, a 60+ man with a romantic heart and a commercially inclined brain. He is withdrawn and his appearance is rather nondescript, and when he becomes involved in criminal cases he surprises his friends as well as his enemies with his resolute actions.