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Sample of authors
Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
Literary figures
Mordecai Tremaine
Gender: Male
His full name is the grandiose Mordecai Euripides Tremaine, but he himself is a warm-hearted, retired tobacconist and amateur criminologist in London who spends his time reading romantic novels and solving crimes. He stumbles across murders or is drawn into cases by his good friend Jonathan Boyce of Scotland Yard. Francis Duncan (pseudonym for William Underhill) has written five novels about him.