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Sample of authors
Crais, Robert
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a family of police officers and oil workers, and he was destined to work with either one or the other. He began to study engineering at Louisiana State University, but soon discovered that it was not for him.
He discovered Raymond Chandler at the age of fifteen and he...
Literary figures
Överkommissarie Hazlerigg
Gender: Male
Although Michael Gilbert wrote six novels and around 20 short stories about Hazlerigg, his first name is never mentioned. Very little at all is known about him, but he was born in Norfolk, started as a patrolling constable in London but was promoted and ended up in Scotland Yard. The good chief inspector is tall and heavily built, has a slightly red complexion, smokes a pipe and is not married – a...