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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Reggie (Reginald) Fortune
Gender: Male
Doctor and pathologist, often engaged by Scotland Yard. He is a gourmet, and thus somewhat overweight, and looks more like a middle-aged cherub, and he is happily married to actress Joan Amber. But above all, Reginald ‘Reggie’ Fortune is a skilled amateur sleuth who, in books by English writer H.C.Bailey, often helps the weaker party and solves a number of tricky whodunit mysteries.