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Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...
Literary figures
Luther Trant
Gender: Male
Shortly after finishing his university studies, the young psychologist Luther Trant opens his own practice, not just as a psychologist but also as a private detective. He becomes very successful and is also respected by the police. He is of average height, athletically built and has thick, red hair and blue-green eyes. Unfortunately, the authors William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer only wrote one...