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Sample of authors
Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls 1960–67. Little is known about her private life, but there is a history of family tragedies. She graduated with a Master of Arts in English Literature from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1972 after which she worked as a civil servant until 1985. She is now a full-time author. S...
Literary figures
Gavin Troy
Gender: Male
Troy is a detective in the fictive English county of Midsomer, and Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby’s right hand. In Caroline Graham’s novel, Tory is a clever and intelligent police officer, but his prejudices – he is, for example, a homophobe – and rather abrupt manner speak against him. In the TV series Midsomer Murders, his personality has been ‘corrected’ and he is decidedly more sympathetic, and i...