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Sample of authors
Spiegelman, Peter
The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there all his life apart from a short period in Los Angeles. He began to write at a young age, creating his own "superheroes". He read a lot of crime fiction and poetry as a teenager, and he won an award in college for his poetry. Spiegelman read English at Vassar College, New York,...
Literary figures
Roger Bennion
Gender: Male
Even though he is comparatively young, he holds the rank of major, but is not active in the military. Roger Bennion comes from an affluent family, and spends most of his time playing golf and solving murder mysteries. He is a skilful amateur detective, a good friend of Chief Inspector Goff from Scotland Yard whom he helps investigate difficult cases in a number of whodunits by the English writer...