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Osman, Richard
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing breakthrough with his first novel, the detective story The Thursday Murder Club (2020). The film rights were sold quickly, and there were immediate plans for a TV-series.
He was born in Billericay in Essex, but grew up in Cuckfield, close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex. When he was...
Literary figures
Amelia Butterworth
Gender: Female
Araminta ”Amelia” Butterworth is a middle-aged, pleasantly curious and gregarious maiden assistant to the detective Ebenezer Gryce in a handful of stories by the American author A.K. Green. Miss Butterworth was a precursor and a source of inspiration for other woman spinster sleuths such as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.