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Sample of authors
Goddard, Robert
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style. His novels are multifaceted, but they mainly concern historical descriptions – or stories about events with roots way back in time – with intricate plots on many layers. They are usually based on psychological tension, but quite often have elements of, for example, a who...
Literary figures
Bailey Ruth Raeburn
Gender: Female
Raeburn is among the more original literary detectives by virtue of being dead and buried. By heavenly authority, she is allowed to return to earth in order to correct some mistakes, above all exonerating innocent people who have been convicted of a crime, in a series of cheerful whodunits by Carolyn Hart. The fact that Raeburn is rather absent-minded and tend to forget the rules puts her in a...