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Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...
Literary figures
Edward Thackeray
Gender: Male
A patient and stoic detective constable at Scotland Yard during the Victorian era. He works side-by-side with his superior Sergeant Cribb in a suite of historical whodunits by Peter Lovesey. Edward Thackeray is dutiful and conscientious, but somewhat lacking in imagination, and he finds it hard to always keep up with Cribb’s reasoning. Besides, he is bad at spelling, which causes a number of e...