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Brodrick, William
The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family emigrated to Vancouver in Canada. For a while, they also lived in Queensland, Australia. In both places, Brodrick attended Catholic schools, and since then the religion has played an important role in his life as well as his writing. He has dual citizenship, British and...
Literary figures
Max Carrados
Gender: Male
He was born as Max Wynn, and become blind after an accident. A relative let him inherit a fortune on condition that he adopted the surname Carrados. He is tall and handsome, but unmarried, and he solves criminal cases as a hobby. Max Wynn Carrados’ other senses are extremely acute; he can, for example, read the paper with his finger tops, author Ernest Bramah (an alias for Ernest Smith) claims.