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Sample of authors
Lehane, Dennis
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the outskirts of Boston. After graduating from Boston College High School he alternated odd jobs with intermittent study while he was thinking about what he wanted to do.
In 1986, he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to attend Eckerd College, and he graduated with a degree in...
Literary figures
Henry Tibbett
Gender: Male
He starts as an ordinary detective inspector, but works his way up to become a chief superintendent with the London Police, in a suite of novels by Patricia Moyes. Henry Tibbett is a friendly, unobtrusive gentleman with an ordinary appearance, but he is also a skilled police officer greatly respected by his colleagues. He does, however, get quite a lot of help from his wife, Emmy, who quite...