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Pears, Iain
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company director and his mother a teacher. Pears attended Warwick School and Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with an MA in 1979. He did post-graduate studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, and earned his PhD in 1982. Pears was a reporter for Channel 4, the BBC, and the German channel ZDF...
Literary figures
Sam Hawthorne
Gender: Male
A friendly, talkative and shrewd country doctor in a little town in Connecticut, who when he gets a little…uhmm, ‘pill druggy’ likes to tell stories from his life and the many ‘impossible’ crimes he has succeeded in solving. Sam Hawthorne is interested in motor cars and new technology, and is a gentleman towards ladies, but is unmarried. He is also the main character in a long row of entertain...