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Blunt, Giles

Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic primary school, and Algonquin Composite after which he read English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975. He also wrote poetry in his spare time; some of his poems were published in Canadian magazines, which led to a job as a film...

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Endeavour Morse

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Detective Chief Inspector Morse, who operates in Oxford, is one of the most popular detectives of 20th century crime fiction. Several television productions have been based on Colin Dexter’s Morse books. Morse is deeply human, but he is not without faults and is sometimes rude to his sergeant, Lewis, another important character. But he is an astute detective who solves crime in an academic s...

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