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Sample of authors
Waugh, Hillary
The American mystery novelist Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Hillhouse High School there before enrolling at Yale University, New Haven, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in music and art in 1942. He also edited the university humour magazine The Yale Record.
After graduating, he trained as a pilot. In 1946, he returned to Connecticut where he...
Literary figures
Peter Shaw
Gender: Male
A policeman’s son and newly appointed detective who discovers that his partner on his first case in Norfolk is his father’s old companion, the hard-skinned and chain-smoking veteran George Valentine. The pair often have different views, but they respect each other. Peter Shaw is almost 190 cm tall, and has one eye after an accident. He is married to the beautiful lawyer Lena from Jamaica, so aut...