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Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...
Literary figures
Suzie (Susannah) Mountford
Gender: Female
Shortly after becoming a police officer, Susannah ‘Suzie’ Mountford – because of a shortage of staff during the war – had to investigate a murder case. She managed it well, and also became the secret lover of her boss, Chief Inspector Tommy Livermore. She is described by her creator, John Gardner, as tall and slim, with brown hair and green eyes. Her father died in an accident when she was a teena...