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Sample of authors
Hall, Tarquin
British author and journalist born in London. He had a varied education, attended a number of different educational institutions and took several degrees in various subjects. When he was eighteen, Tarquin Hall decided he wanted to become a journalist, and since his mother was American, he went to the United States where he worked in a hotel and at a ranch while he tried to pitch his articles to...
Literary figures
Martine Poirot
Gender: Female
An investigating judge in the fictive little Belgian town Villette-sur-Meuse, where she lives with her husband, the Swedish Professor Thomas Héger, a specialist in Medieval History, and (eventually) their two children. Martine Poirot – the author Ingrid Hedström is very fond of whodunnnits à la Agatha Christie – is 34 years old when we meet her for the first time. She is attractive and picks her c...