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Hayder, Mo

The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...

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Drury Lane

Gender: Male

Drury Lane was a famous American Shakespearean actor who became deaf. Having made a fortune as an actor, he lives in a castle on the banks of the Hudson where he solves complex murder mysteries in four novels by Barnaby Ross (alias Ellery Queen). Fortunately, Lane is good at lip-reading.

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