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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
John Stubbs
Gender: Male
British professor of Botany who is worried about becoming dehydrated, so he drinks large quantities of beer. He also solves murders in a highly personal manner in novels by R.T. Campbell (pseudonym for Ruthven Todd). Professor John Stubbs is of late middle age, vain and self-assured, corpulent, has a moustache, smokes a stinking pipe and interrogates witnesses with the sensitivity of a drunken...