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Sample of authors
Hayder, Mo
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...
Literary figures
Continental Op
Gender: Male
His name is never mentioned, but he is employed at the major private detective agency The Continental Agency’s offices in San Francisco and he solves crime all over the United States. Little is known about him apart from the fact that he is a good investigator, that he is unmarried and the he describes himself as “fat and forty”. He is the principal character in a string of short stories by Dashi...