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Sample of authors
Mackintosh, Clare
English author Clare Mackintosh has been amply awarded at home and abroad, mainly for her crime novels. She was born in Bristol, and grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where she went to high school. She attended Royal Holloway University in Surrey, where she majored in management and French, and worked for a year as a business secretary in Paris at the end of the course. However, she wanted...
Literary figures
Lecoq
Gender: Male
Monsieur Lecoq, whose first name is never mentioned, had some minor crimes on his conscience when he changed sides and instead got a job with La Sûreté in Paris. He is from a fine, but financially ruined, family. He is a small person but with a well-proportioned body and glowing eyes. In five classic novels by Émile Gaboriau, published 1866-68, he solves crimes in a surprisingly modern manner.