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Sample of authors
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
Literary figures
Henry Gamadge
Gender: Male
American antiquarian bookseller, who is also an author, bibliophile and expert on rare books and manuscripts, as well as being a friendly and thoughtful amateur detective. He is tall, but has a hunchback from sitting bent over books, and has a wise wife in Clara. Henry Gamadge solves a number of cases – many of which are concerned with literature or the theatre – in 16 whodunnits by Elizabeth Dal...