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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Charlie Peace
Gender: Male
Afro-American detective, who in the first books about him works for Scotland Yard in London together with Perry Trethowan, another of author Robert Barnard’s main characters. After a while, Charlie Peace settles in the village of Slepton Edge in Yorkshire together with his quintessentially English wife, author Felicity, and their daughter Carola, and gets a job with the police in Leeds.