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Sample of authors
James, P.D.
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in 1937. She served in the Red Cross during the war, and in 1941 she married Ernest Connor Bantry White. Although she dreamed of becoming a writer she helped her husband pass medical school while looking after the couple's daughters. After his return from the war, her husband...
Literary figures
Tommy Rankin
Gender: Male
Young – about 30 years old – police officer in Philadelphia, USA, which was also author Milton M. Propper’s home city. Tommy Rankin is single (he is married to his job), of average height and is handsome with dark curly hair and dark eyes, as well as thin lips. He is very dedicated to his work, so much so that he can himself commit crimes – like breaking in to the homes of suspects – to solve them...