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Mina, Denise
Denise Mina is a Scottish lawyer and author of crime novels. She was born in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Her father was an oil engineer who worked on platforms in the North Sea, which meant that the family often moved homes – they moved 21 times in 18 years. Mina grew up in Paris, The Hague, Bergen, London, Perth and Invergordon, but she spent most of her school holidays with her mother’s relatives in...
Literary figures
Desmond Merrion
Gender: Male
During the First World War, he worked in the British military intelligence service. Then Desmond Merrion became a private detective and solves a large number of cases that his creator Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street) has written about. He usually works together with Scotland Yard detective Henry Arnold. Merrion is of short stature, is well-built, looks often as though he is bored and is...