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Sample of authors
Queen, Ellery
Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford Lepofsky, both from New York. They were cousins who attended Boy's High School, Brooklyn, together and later worked independently within PR and advertising before they started writing full time in 1931.
Ellery Queen is something of institution in the detective genre; the books...
Literary figures
Arthur Crook
Gender: Male
An unpolished and vulgar lawyer – whose judicial methods are questionable – but also a clever crime investigator, in books by Anthony Gilbert (pseud. f. Lucy Beatrice Malleson). Arthur Crook, fat and one hundred percent cockney, is sometimes compared with a frog, appearance-wise, even though he has red hair, a red face and never wears anything but cheap brown suits. He enjoys drinking beer and doe...