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Sample of authors
Manotti, Dominique
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made aware of the ...
Literary figures
Blotto (Devereux) Lyminster
Gender: Male
The honourable Devereux Lyminster, better known as ‘Blotto’, comes from a respected noble family. He is well-built, strong and handsome, a famous cricketer and has a brain like a hen. When it comes to solving murder cases in a series of farcical crime novels by Simon Brett, which are set in the 1920s, he thus often plays the role of a stupid ‘Watson’ to his beautiful, smart sister Honoria, called...