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Sample of authors
Whitaker, Chris
English author and former stock-broker, born and grew up in London. Nowadays he lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three children, and works part-time as a librarian. As an author he is greatly influenced by his background. His parents had divorced, he was never interested in school, starting doing various jobs when he was still a teenager, and he earned money handing out advertising...
Literary figures
Francis Hancock
Gender: Male
His father was an Englishman, his mother from India. Francis Hancock himself is a funeral director in London during the Second World War, when the Germans bombed the city. His experiences during the First World War, when he was a soldier, have given him mental problems. He is very withdrawn, which doesn’t, however, prevent him from being a clever – albeit reluctant – amateur detective in a suite o...