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Sample of authors
Lovesey, Peter
Peter Lovesey is a British author of detective stories. He was born in Whitton, Middlesex, to Richard Lear, a bank clerk, and his wife Amy Lovesey. He was given his mother’s surname, but he used his father’s name for the pen name Peter Lear. Peter Lovesey attended the University of Reading 1955–58, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He then did his national service in the RAF and serve...
Literary figures
Mrs. Norris
Gender: Female
Her husband died after they had been married a short time, so Mrs Norris – whose first name is Annie, which is rarely used – moved to Scotland and became the housekeeper for a general. The short and somewhat plump elderly lady becomes involved in murder cases which she solves in novels by Dorothy Salisbury Davis with the help of her ward James ‘Jimmie’ Jarvis and Jasper Tully, the prosecutor’s ass...