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Sample of authors
Goodwin, Jason
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author and estate agent John Michell, were briefly involved in a relationship that broke up before their son was born. Jason was adopted by his mother’s husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, but when Jason was three years old, his mother left her husband for a younger m...
Literary figures
Solar Pons
Gender: Male
He is tall and thin and very sharp-witted, the master detective who lives at 7B Praed Street in London, and who solves cases together with Dr Lyndon Parker. This sounds very similar to Sherlock Holmes, and it is: August Derleth wrote a large number of Sherlock-Holmes pastiches, primarily in the form of short stories, about Solar Pons, who does, however, have a somewhat lighter personality of his...