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Sample of authors
Clancy, Tom
The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal Service and his mother worked in a store’s credit department. He was educated at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland, and at Loyola College, graduating with a degree in English Literature in 1969.
Tom Clancy specialised in novels about high-tech m...
Literary figures
John Mallett
Gender: Male
It is not clear whether he really is called John: but author Cyril Hare (pseudonym for Gordon Clark) has privately indicated that such is the case. Mallett is a detective inspector at Scotland Yard. He is a widower, tall and well-built, with a mild-red face. He sees lunch as the most important event of the day, but nevertheless manages to solve a number of troublesome murder cases, more often...