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Sample of authors
Gilbert, Michael
Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and educated at St. Peter’s School in Seaford, Sussex, and Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon, after which he read law at the University of London, graduating in 1937. During the war he served in North Africa and Europe. He was a prisoner of war in North Africa and based his thr...
Literary figures
Judy Hammer
Gender: Female
Superintendent Judy Hammer is head of a police department in North Carolina, Virginia, where she has to deal with both city crime and stubborn islanders in a short suite of novels by Patricia Cornwell. Hammer is a middle-aged, unhappily married but very fond of her young colleague Andy Brazil, who becomes her right hand. In the books about them, realistic police work is combined with some less...