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Sample of authors
Carr, John Dickson
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...
Literary figures
Kate Burrows
Gender: Female
Skilled and hard-skinned police detective in Grantley, Yorkshire. Kate Burrows is respected by her colleagues, but has problems when she falls in love with gangster Patrick Kelly and they move in together. She is pretty, with brown hair, brown eyes and a slim body with long legs. Author Martina Cole lets her grow old in the books: in the last one, she has retired but is still used by her former...