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Sample of authors
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
Literary figures
Tecumseh Fox
Gender: Male
His full name is William Tecumseh Sherman Fox, but his friends simply call him ‘Tec’. He is a private detective with his own firm, well-off, likes to socialise with beautiful women, engages in charity on a large scale and lives on a farm in Westchester County outside New York together with lots of animals. And he solves difficult crime cases in three detective stories by author Rex Stout.