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Moorcock, Michael

The British author, editor and musician Michael John Moorcock is something of a phenomenon. He began his career as the editor of a comic magazine. Today, he is a prize-winning novelist named by The Times as one of Britain’s most important post-war authors. He is considered a pioneer within new wave science fiction and a central figure in modern fantasy fiction. Moorcock is also the author of s...

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Bertha Cool

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Cool is a sturdy woman in her sixties who runs a private detective agency on the fringes of the law. She is a hardboiled lady who smokes, drinks and swears, so she caused some attention when the books about her were launched in the 1930s by A. A. Fair (a pen name used by Erle Stanley Gardner). Her trusted helper is a wiry, sly lawyer called Donald Lam.

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