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Sample of authors
Crais, Robert
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a family of police officers and oil workers, and he was destined to work with either one or the other. He began to study engineering at Louisiana State University, but soon discovered that it was not for him.
He discovered Raymond Chandler at the age of fifteen and he...
Literary figures
Patrick Grant
Gender: Male
Professor Patrick Grant – whose surname comes from the whisky brand, his creator Margaret Yorke has revealed – lectures in Art History in Oxford. He is somewhat absentminded, often quotes Shakespeare, but for a principal protagonist in crime novels he is really an unusually bland figure without any special characteristics. He is, however, a clever amateur detective who solves cases in five who...