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Portrait image of Simon Beckett Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Beckett, Simon

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...

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Montague Egg

Gender: Male

A travelling salesman for a wine importer in England, and the main character in almost a dozen short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. The round-cheeked, red-faced and stable Montague Egg is a bachelor, always on the move, always very friendly and with the gift of the gab, and he wears a trilby. But he is also a skilled amateur detective, not least thanks to The Salesman’s Handbook which he often c...

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