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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
Reggie (Reginald) Fortune
Gender: Male
Doctor and pathologist, often engaged by Scotland Yard. He is a gourmet, and thus somewhat overweight, and looks more like a middle-aged cherub, and he is happily married to actress Joan Amber. But above all, Reginald ‘Reggie’ Fortune is a skilled amateur sleuth who, in books by English writer H.C.Bailey, often helps the weaker party and solves a number of tricky whodunit mysteries.