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Allingham, Margery
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane Hughes. Both parents were writers and journalists who regularly contributed to various weekly magazines. Herbert John was the editor of the New London Journal as well as the Christian Globe.
Margery Allingham grew up in Essex as the oldest of three children. She was...
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Artie (Arthur Case) Wu
Gender: Male
He is (according to what he claims are reliable sources) the illegitimate heir to the last emperor of China and thus the pretender to the throne. Arhur Case (Artie) Wu, 186 cm tall and weighing 115 kg, is however married and the father of four (two pairs of twins), and thus obliged – together with Quincy Durant to run the company WuDu Ltd, which has made a speciality of fraud and deception. Ross T...