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Sample of authors
Collins, Max Allan
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of a few years as a student, he has remained faithful to the town of his birth all his life, and he still lives there. He attended Muscatine Community College 1966–68, and then studied, among other things, Art at the University of Iowa in Iowa City 1968–72. In 1968 he married Ba...
Literary figures
Robert Macdonald
Gender: Male
Scotland Yard’s Robert Macdonald is of Scottish extraction but lives in London and solves cases in various parts of Great Britain in a long row of books by E.C.R. Lorac (pseudonym for Edith ‘Carol’ Rivett). He is of early middle-age, tall, trim and with an athletic build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He is also a bachelor and intends to remain so, and likes to go on long walks in the count...