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Harris, Robert

Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very young Harris decided that he too wanted to work with text and print. The family moved to Leicestershire when he was nine. He attended Belvoir High School at Bottesford and 1971–75 King Edward VII School at Melton Mowbray. He then went on to read English and history at Selwyn C...

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Dickson McCunn

Gender: Male

The author John Buchan’s most original detective is the retired grocer Dickson McCunn, a 60+ man with a romantic heart and a commercially inclined brain. He is withdrawn and his appearance is rather nondescript, and when he becomes involved in criminal cases he surprises his friends as well as his enemies with his resolute actions.

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