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Collins, Wilkie

The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a number of short stories and plays. T.S. Eliot later described his novel The Moonstone (1868) as "the world's first, longest and best detective story". Collins was one of the most popular authors of his time, both at home and abroad. He was close to Charles Dickens and a notorious...

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John Jericho

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He is a well-built, strong man who is instantly recognisable thanks to his impressive red beard, and he is often likened to a Viking. But the Korea veteran John Jericho is a successful and well-paid – albeit seen as somewhat controversial – artist in Greenwich Village who because of his sense of justice and his curiosity solves crimes in a suite of novels and (primarily) short stories by Hugh Pen...

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