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Sample of authors
Dibdin, Michael
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern Ireland in 1954 where Dibdin went to school until 1965. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Sussex, Brighton, in 1968. He then attended teachers college at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, graduating in 1969. He worked in various professions...
Literary figures
Pepe Carvalho
Gender: Male
Spain’s most famous private detective is Pepe Carvalho, a many-sided as well as a contradictory personality – he has, for example, been a CIA agent as well as an imprisoned communist. He is interested in food and literature, and solves cases in a row of books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, in which the home city of both of them, Barcelona, is given a lot of room. Carvalho is often accompanied by his...