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Sample of authors
Creasey, John
The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around 530 novels have been published under his own name and 28 different pseudonyms. In 1937 alone, he published 29 new titles. He was best known for his crime stories, but he also wrote spy and agent thrillers, science fiction, westerns, romances, adventure stories and about 40...
Literary figures
Peter Shaw
Gender: Male
A policeman’s son and newly appointed detective who discovers that his partner on his first case in Norfolk is his father’s old companion, the hard-skinned and chain-smoking veteran George Valentine. The pair often have different views, but they respect each other. Peter Shaw is almost 190 cm tall, and has one eye after an accident. He is married to the beautiful lawyer Lena from Jamaica, so aut...