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Sample of authors
Lyall, Gavin
Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the King Edward VI School between 1943 and 1951. After serving in the Royal Air Force 1951–53, he read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956. While at Cambridge he edited the student newspaper Varsity in which he also published a c...
Literary figures
Jack Finch
Gender: Male
A taciturn, patient detective chief inspector in English Essex who solves his cases with the help of his knowledge of human nature, psychological insight and thorough police work in a suite of novels by June Thomson. Jack Finch – in the USA re-named as Jack Rudd – is unmarried and lives together with his sister. He finds it hard to have contact with women, often feels lonely and has a lot of sym...