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Portrait of Martina Cole Photo: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage (2013)

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Cole, Martina

Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s creator J.K. Rowling has achieved greater economic success. If Cole is popular with readers, the opposite applies to the critics: on the whole, bloggers are the only commentators who give her positive reviews, and even though she has been nominated for several literary prizes, s...

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John J. Malone

Gender: Male

He is a lawyer in Chicago, always longing for a drink, willing ladies and rich clients. John Joseph Malone is a slovenly, sweaty and red-faced little man, always wearing a creased suit. But he is a clever and unconventional detective in the entertaining novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig), in which he usually has the married couple Jake and Helene Justus by his side.

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