Sample of authors
Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...
Literary figures
Lee Arnold
Gender: Male
A former professional soldier and police officer, who runs a detective agency in the East End of London together with his female assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, who is a Muslim. Lee Arnold is divorced, but doesn’t lack female companions. And besides, he is good at fighting when necessary, according to author Barbara Nadel. But he suffers from painful memories of a father with violent tendencies, a...