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Sample of authors
James, Peter
The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...
Literary figures
Walter Purbright
Gender: Male
Detective inspector in the little fictive town of Flaxborough in England.He is a decidedly anonymous person without a family. Walter Purbright has an everyday appearance, but he is honest and a good police officer who in a dozen commended novels by Colin Watson with stoic calm deals with the very entertaining and sometimes absurd murder cases he investigates as well as his not particularly...