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Sample of authors
McDermid, Val
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
Literary figures
Tommy Rankin
Gender: Male
Young – about 30 years old – police officer in Philadelphia, USA, which was also author Milton M. Propper’s home city. Tommy Rankin is single (he is married to his job), of average height and is handsome with dark curly hair and dark eyes, as well as thin lips. He is very dedicated to his work, so much so that he can himself commit crimes – like breaking in to the homes of suspects – to solve them...