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Brodrick, William

The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family emigrated to Vancouver in Canada. For a while, they also lived in Queensland, Australia. In both places, Brodrick attended Catholic schools, and since then the religion has played an important role in his life as well as his writing. He has dual citizenship, British and...

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Claude Warrington-Reeve

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An eminent defence lawyer in London, who is expert at getting wrongly suspected defendants freed in sensational cases. Claude Warrington-Reeve is middle-aged, energetic and strict, and a clever detective when it comes to finding clues which the police have missed. He does, however, get on well with Chief Inspector Steven Mitchell from Scotland Yard, and together they solve cases in three of...

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