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Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
Literary figures
Steven Mitchell
Gender: Male
He is a ‘typical’ Scotland Yard chief inspector: of average height, with an everyday and friendly countenance, and he likes to wear a mackintosh and a bowler hat. He is also a thorough investigator who appreciates work discipline and routine work. He cooperates with amateur detectives, but it is often Steven Mitchell who arrives at the correct solutions in the books that Josephine Bell has wri...