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Sample of authors
Cleeves, Ann
The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After dropping out of Sussex University she worked as a childcare officer, an auxiliary coastguard and cook. She has supported women’s shelters and she has worked as a probation officer. She is also a filmmaker and she has organized book clubs in prisons. She is married to an o...
Literary figures
Randolph Mason
Gender: Male
By using gaps in the legislation, this feared lawyer from New York often gets his clients off the hook – regardless of whether they are innocent or not. This takes place in the first two collections of short stories about him by Melville Davisson Post. In the third, and final, book however, Randolph Mason is on the side of the police, and acts as a detective. He is well built, has brown hair w...