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Sample of authors
Pronzini, Bill
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of detective fiction, science fiction, western fiction, thrillers and horror fiction. He is also a renowned expert within these fields, and as such he has edited some hundred anthologies and short story collections by other authors. He has also published a large number of...
Literary figures
Harriet Vane
Gender: Female
At the age of 29, crime writer Harriet Vane stands trial accused of having poisoned her lover. She is shown to be innocent by Lord Peter Wimsey, who falls in love with her and then in some of Dorothy L. Sayers’ novels courts the independent Vane. She participates in his investigations, but is not interested in a more intimate relationship with him. Eventually, however, she gives in, they get m...