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Unsworth, Barry

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from the mining region and began their climb up the social ladder when his father began to work for an insurance company. Barry Unsworth attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and read English at the University of Manchester between 1948 and 1951 after which he did his national...

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Bernie Rhodenbarr

Gender: Male

Rhodenbarr is a clever burglar that operates in New York in a string of entertaining novels by Lawrence Block. Over the years, Bernard “Bernie” Rhodenbarr has had to solve a number of crimes, even murder, that he has not committed but that he risks being blamed for. His daytime job involves running a small second-hand bookshop that barely makes a profit, but he invested in it because he thought he...

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