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Sample of authors
Rendell, Ruth
The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin and her father a former shipyard worker in Plymouth who was able to train as a technology and mathematics teacher as an adult. Ruth Rendell attended the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex. She was a feature writer and deputy editor at a number of local newspapers...
Literary figures
Robert Macdonald
Gender: Male
Scotland Yard’s Robert Macdonald is of Scottish extraction but lives in London and solves cases in various parts of Great Britain in a long row of books by E.C.R. Lorac (pseudonym for Edith ‘Carol’ Rivett). He is of early middle-age, tall, trim and with an athletic build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He is also a bachelor and intends to remain so, and likes to go on long walks in the count...