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Brooks, Kevin
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London. Brooks has had many different types of jobs, for example as an assistant at a crematorium, at a petrol station, with the railways, the post, as a maintenance worker at London Zoo and as a municipal civil servant. But he has always felt that he really wanted to become a...
Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906
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Hornung, E.W.
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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