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Bradley, Alan

Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one hundred kilometres from Toronto. His father left the family when the author was a small child. He was a sickly child and learned to read at an early age. He studied engineering, specialising in electronic systems for television and radio, and eventually moved to Saskatoon,...

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Thackeray Phin

Gender: Male

For the last two years, the American professor of Philosophy, Thackeray Phin, has been in London where to his great delight he can solve some unusually complicated ‘impossible’ crimes. He is tall and thin and looks like George Bernard Shaw. He dresses eccentrically too, preferably in old-fashioned plus fours, and generally has an umbrella with him. John Sladek has written two entertaining and wel...

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