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Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...
Literary figures
John Jericho
Gender: Male
He is a well-built, strong man who is instantly recognisable thanks to his impressive red beard, and he is often likened to a Viking. But the Korea veteran John Jericho is a successful and well-paid – albeit seen as somewhat controversial – artist in Greenwich Village who because of his sense of justice and his curiosity solves crimes in a suite of novels and (primarily) short stories by Hugh Pen...