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Sample of authors
O'Donnell, Peter
Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime reporter. O’Donnell attended Catford Central School in London, but he soon dropped out and began to write for youth magazines. In 1936, at the age of sixteen, he was employed to write comic strips.
He was drafted in 1938. During the first few years of his military service he was st...
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.