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Sample of authors
Temple, Peter
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...
Literary figures
Sam Hawthorne
Gender: Male
A friendly, talkative and shrewd country doctor in a little town in Connecticut, who when he gets a little…uhmm, ‘pill druggy’ likes to tell stories from his life and the many ‘impossible’ crimes he has succeeded in solving. Sam Hawthorne is interested in motor cars and new technology, and is a gentleman towards ladies, but is unmarried. He is also the main character in a long row of entertain...