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Sample of authors
Billingham, Mark
The British author Mark Philip David Billingham was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, and grew up near Birmingham where he attended King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys at King’s Heath. His father left the family when Mark was six years old. When his mother remarried eight years later, she and her husband moved away. Mark Billingham was then seventeen years old and found accommodation near his s...
Literary figures
Derek Strange
Gender: Male
Former police officer who has made a career change and become a private detective in a suite of novels by George P. Pelecanos. He is well-built, with grey hair and beard, and loves music. He has a sporadic relationship with his assistant Janine Baker, and is a ‘reserve dad’ for her son, Lionel. Derek Strange lives alone with his dog, Greco, a boxer. He is sometimes greatly helped by another for...