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Sample of authors
Keating, H.R.F.
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the Merchant Taylor’s school in London between 1940 and 1944 and served in the military until 1948 when he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. Keating then worked at various newspapers, mainly in London. He started to work for The Times in 1...
Literary figures
Pepe Carvalho
Gender: Male
Spain’s most famous private detective is Pepe Carvalho, a many-sided as well as a contradictory personality – he has, for example, been a CIA agent as well as an imprisoned communist. He is interested in food and literature, and solves cases in a row of books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, in which the home city of both of them, Barcelona, is given a lot of room. Carvalho is often accompanied by his...