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Sample of authors
Fox, Candice
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives. She herself says that she had a happy childhood and youth, albeit in a somewhat odd family: her father worked as a prison guard, while his wife took care of children from families with social problems. So Candice Fox grew up with a row of different adoptive and foster siblings...
Literary figures
John Mallett
Gender: Male
It is not clear whether he really is called John: but author Cyril Hare (pseudonym for Gordon Clark) has privately indicated that such is the case. Mallett is a detective inspector at Scotland Yard. He is a widower, tall and well-built, with a mild-red face. He sees lunch as the most important event of the day, but nevertheless manages to solve a number of troublesome murder cases, more often...