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Sample of authors
Ambler, Eric
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the end of the 1920s he joined them on tour. He attended Colfe's Grammar School and studied engineering at University of London between 1925 and 1928. He entered the advertising business in the 1930s, in 1937 he became head of a London advertising agency and a year later he began...
Literary figures
Melita Pargeter
Gender: Female
Mrs Melita Pargeter refuses to accept that her deceased husband was the man he was: a smart thief and fraudster. He left her a fortune and a promise from his gang to help her. She is, says author Simon Brett, a friendly, white-haired elderly lady, whose ample appearance hides a will of steel, great stubbornness and a sharp tongue – which makes her a formidable amateur detective.