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Sample of authors
Child, Lee
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four brothers. When he was four years old, the family moved to Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, so the brothers were able to attend Orchard Primary School. When Jim was eleven years old he won a scholarship to King Edward’s School, after which he read law at the University of S...
Literary figures
Joseph Rouletabille
Gender: Male
He is 18 years old when he solves an ‘impossible crime’ in Gaston Leroux’s classic first detective story. He is actually called Joseph Joséphine, and his father is a master criminal. Joseph Rouletabille is a journalist, but also an amateur detective and even a secret agent in one novel. He is small in stature, but quick-witted and energetic. His marriage with the beautiful Ivana Vilitchkov has an...