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Sample of authors
Cody, Liza
Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it later transpired that she suffered from dyslexia, and so she put her efforts into an artistic career. She studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and the Royal Academy School of Art in London. For a while, she worked as a visual artist, but with little success, s...
Literary figures
Mac
Gender: Male
After a childhood in Chicago’s slum district, Mac – which is the only name he is given in Thomas B. Dewey’s hard-boiled novels – becomes a police officer in that same city. However, he solved a crime that gangster bosses and corrupt powerful figures did not want solving, so he was sacked. Now he is a private detective, but still had friends in the police department. He is a skilled investigator, h...