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Sample of authors
Harvey, John
The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He graduated from teacher’s college at the University of London in 1963 and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire) in 1964. He then taught in Heanor, Andover and Stevenage while continuing his studies for a Master of Arts d...
Literary figures
Bingo (Robert Emmett) Riggs
Gender: Male
Talkative, spindly small criminal, with a pointed face and mouse-coloured hair, who dreams of becoming rich – if necessary by illegal means. Robert Emmett ‘Bingo’ Riggs is a slovenly street photographer who travels around the USA in a suite of crime novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) with his colleague ‘Handsome’ Kusak. Time after time they are obliged to act as detectiv...