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Gardner, John (f. 1926)
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He joined the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War and in 1943 the Royal Marin...
Literary figures
George Palmer-Jones
Gender: Male
Mr Palmer-Jones is a retired English government civil servant and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist who travels around Great Britain together with his wife to look at birds. It is a happy marriage, but Palmer-Jones has a problem with a certain inferiority complex and a fear of doing something wrong. It doesn’t, however, prevent him from solving murder mysteries in whodunits by Ann Cleeves.