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Sample of authors
Hayder, Mo
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...
Literary figures
Albert Campion
Gender: Male
Campion is an English amateur detective with an obscure past. He is an aristocrat, clearly associated with royalty, and he is well respected despite his dull personality. He is arrogant and a bit of a snob in the early books by Margery Allingham, but he soon develops into a multi-faceted, sympathetic person who solves murder using his great understanding of human nature.