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Portrait of Jeffrey Archer Photo: Richard Lewis /AP/TT (2001)

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Archer, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Howard Archer was a British author, politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his name in...

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Ambrose Chitterwick

Gender: Male

A very different detective hero: a mild-eyed, very discreet elderly English gentleman with a totally nondescript appearance. This doesn’t prevent amateur criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick – to the great annoyance of Scotland Yard’s top brass – from solving a handful really tricky murder cases in books by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). How he actually succeeds in achieving this is a mystery, not least for...

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