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Sample of authors
Elkins, Aaron
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College, Manhattan (BA 1956), Madison University of Arizona, Tucson (MA 1960), and received a doctorate in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. He has also taught at universities, primarily in California, but also in Heidelberg, Germany, between 1976 and...
Literary figures
Joe Ryker
Gender: Male
A worn-out but effective police detective in New York, accustomed to violence and for that reason always armed with two revolvers. He is a disillusioned lone wolf and the main character in a suite of novels by Jack Cannon (pseudonym for Nelson DeMille). Disagreement about rights, however, meant that for a while several authors wrote books about Joe Ryker – and DeMille was forced to re-name his h...