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Sample of authors
Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls 1960–67. Little is known about her private life, but there is a history of family tragedies. She graduated with a Master of Arts in English Literature from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1972 after which she worked as a civil servant until 1985. She is now a full-time author. S...
Literary figures
Charlie Peace
Gender: Male
Afro-American detective, who in the first books about him works for Scotland Yard in London together with Perry Trethowan, another of author Robert Barnard’s main characters. After a while, Charlie Peace settles in the village of Slepton Edge in Yorkshire together with his quintessentially English wife, author Felicity, and their daughter Carola, and gets a job with the police in Leeds.