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Sample of authors
Griffiths, Elly
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Domenica de Rosa. Her father is of Italian descent, her mother English. When Domenica was five years old, the family moved to Brighton, and she has lived in or just outside the city virtually all her life. She went to local schools, and in 1981 started to study at King’s Colle...
Literary figures
Handsome (Bonifacius) Kusak
Gender: Male
He is tall and broad-shouldered, and looks like a film star – which is what he dreams of becoming. But Bonifacius ‘Handsome’ Kusak – his surname is sometimes written as Kuzak, and in Swedish translations he is called ‘Snyggis’ – is a photographer with little money who travels around with his colleague ‘Bingo’ Riggs and is forever getting into difficulties which force them to be detectives in books...