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Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...
Literary figures
Desmond Merrion
Gender: Male
During the First World War, he worked in the British military intelligence service. Then Desmond Merrion became a private detective and solves a large number of cases that his creator Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street) has written about. He usually works together with Scotland Yard detective Henry Arnold. Merrion is of short stature, is well-built, looks often as though he is bored and is...