Sample of authors
Dibdin, Michael
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern Ireland in 1954 where Dibdin went to school until 1965. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Sussex, Brighton, in 1968. He then attended teachers college at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, graduating in 1969. He worked in various professions...
Literary figures
Tad Anders
Gender: Male
A Polish soldier fled to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, married an English woman and had a son, Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Anders. Then he died in the war, and the boy is brought up by the mother. As an adult, Anders became a professional killer for the MI6 secret service until he retired and started to run a pub in a short suite of novels by Ted Allbeury. But his services are still needed…