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Sample of authors
Hill, Reginald
The British author Reginald Charles Hill was born in West Hartlepool, Durham, but he moved with his family to Carlisle, Cumberland (now Cumbria) when he was three years old after his father, a professional footballer, had been bought by Carlisle United. Reginald Hill attended Stanwix School where he med Patricia "Pat" Ruell. They were married in 1960. The marriage was childless, but the couple...
Literary figures
MacDougal Duff
Gender: Male
Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...