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Sample of authors
MacLean, Alistair
The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair MacGill-Eain (his Gaelic name was anglicised by the British authorities). His father was a Church of Scotland minister. While the author was still a baby, the family moved to a farm near Daviot in the Highlands. After the death of his father, his mother returned to Glasgow with...
Literary figures
George Felse
Gender: Male
A central character in the Felse detective family, created by Ellis Peters (pseudonym for Edith Pargeter). George Felse is a hard-working and honest middle-aged police detective in the fictive town Comerford in Shropshire in England. But in many of the cases he solves, important (sometimes even major) roles are played by his wife – called Bunty and previously a famous concert singer – and his tee...