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Portrait of Martina Cole Photo: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage (2013)

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Cole, Martina

Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s creator J.K. Rowling has achieved greater economic success. If Cole is popular with readers, the opposite applies to the critics: on the whole, bloggers are the only commentators who give her positive reviews, and even though she has been nominated for several literary prizes, s...

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Simon Ark

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If you were to believe what he implies, he is a Coptic priest who is between 1,500 and 2,000 years old and who was condemned to forever wander the earth and battle against the devil. The tall, sun-tanned Simon Ark does this by solving a number of horror-like crime cases, many of them with an occult or religious background. The explanations in the short stories by Edward D. Hoch are, however,...

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