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Sample of authors
Cash, Wiley
Wiley Cash is an American crime writer. His first two novels went on to become bestsellers with a general appeal. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, where he grew up and attended high school. At eighteen, he went on to read a BA in literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating in 2000. He continued to study for an MA in English at the University of North Carolina,...
Literary figures
Ambrose Chitterwick
Gender: Male
A very different detective hero: a mild-eyed, very discreet elderly English gentleman with a totally nondescript appearance. This doesn’t prevent amateur criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick – to the great annoyance of Scotland Yard’s top brass – from solving a handful really tricky murder cases in books by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). How he actually succeeds in achieving this is a mystery, not least for...