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Sample of authors
Higgins, Jack
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry Patterson but was called, even by himself, Harry. He is, however, best known under the pseudonym Jack Higgins. When he was still a baby, his father left the family and his mother moved with her son to her own father in Belfast, where the boy attended Nettlefield Primary Sch...
Literary figures
Wick (Wickham) Gore
Gender: Male
The British officer and big-game hunter Wickham Gore comes home after two years in Africa and finds himself involved in a suspected murder – which he solves so elegantly that he subsequently starts up his own detective agency. He is 40+, has a youthful, slim figure, slightly greying hair, a moustache and sparkling eyes. And he is the problem-solver in seven whodunnits by Lynn Brock (pseudonym f...