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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Beatrice Lestrange Bradley
Gender: Female
Famous psychologist, honorary PhD at several universities, but eccentric and very unsympathetic. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, resident in Wandles Parva, a little village in Hampshire, is middle-aged, has black hair, a masculine build and a narrow face which can assume a snake-like appearance. She has been married and has children, but she devotes her interest to solving cases in novels by...