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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
Kent Murdock
Gender: Male
Photographer, amateur detective and former war hero, who, according to author George Harmon Coxe, advanced to become a very well-paid picture director at a major daily newspaper. The cosmopolitan Kent Murdock is tall and attractive with a charming smile, and moves as freely in luxury restaurants as in seedy bars. He lives in a luxurious apartment with his intelligent and beautiful wife Joyce.