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Sample of authors
Dexter, Colin
The British crime writer Colin Dexter grew up in Stamford, Lincolnshire. After completing his military service in 1950, he read classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving an honorary masters degree in 1958. Dexter was a grammar school teacher until 1966, when he started to experience problems with his hearing. He then worked for the University of Oxford Examination...
Literary figures
Bingo (Robert Emmett) Riggs
Gender: Male
Talkative, spindly small criminal, with a pointed face and mouse-coloured hair, who dreams of becoming rich – if necessary by illegal means. Robert Emmett ‘Bingo’ Riggs is a slovenly street photographer who travels around the USA in a suite of crime novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) with his colleague ‘Handsome’ Kusak. Time after time they are obliged to act as detectiv...