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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Tommy Beresford
Gender: Male
The red-headed Thomas ‘Tommy’ Beresford is something of an unimaginative but stubborn Englishman, who took part in the First World War and was wounded twice. He subsequently married his childhood friend Prudence ‘Tuppence’ Cowley, and they have two children and adopt a third. Together, the couple solve a number of cases with good humour and entertaining dialogues in four novels and a collection of...