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Sample of authors
Sayers, Dorothy L.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
Literary figures
Harriet Martens
Gender: Female
Not without reason, she is called ‘The Hard Detective’, and Chief Inspector Harriet Martens in Greater Birchester is tough. She needs to be: she has to sort our various problems in her own police force as well as struggling against uncomprehending superiors. But her creator H.R.F. Keating lets her have a happy private life with her husband John – at any rate until their adult twin sons are the vic...