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Sample of authors
Burke, James Lee
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...
Literary figures
Emmy Tibbett
Gender: Female
She is the wife of the English detective Henry Tibbett in a suite of whodunnits by Patricia Moyes. Emmy Tibbett was born in the Netherlands, and is a plump lady who hides stubbornness and will-power behind a jolly and friendly façade. She struggles hard to keep her weight down, and shares in her husband’s cases with empathy and curiosity. Quite often it is she who discovers decisive leads.