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Sample of authors
King, Stephen
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his...
Literary figures
Claude Warrington-Reeve
Gender: Male
An eminent defence lawyer in London, who is expert at getting wrongly suspected defendants freed in sensational cases. Claude Warrington-Reeve is middle-aged, energetic and strict, and a clever detective when it comes to finding clues which the police have missed. He does, however, get on well with Chief Inspector Steven Mitchell from Scotland Yard, and together they solve cases in three of...