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          | Elly Griffiths |  
          | • | Max Mephisto, formerly part  of the Magic Men, stage magicians who performed special missions during  WWII,  and Edgar Stephens, a detective inspector, in 1950s Brighton, England |  
 
        
          | Peter Guttridge |  
          | • | Robert Watts:
            disgraced chief constable in mid-1930s Brighton, England, in the
            Brighton trilogy |  
 
        
          | Peter James |  
          | • | Roy Grace: Detective Superintendent of  the CID, in Sussex, England |  
 
 
 
        
          | Danny Miller |  
          | • | Vince Treadwell: young
            police detective sent in 1964 from London to Brighton, England |  
 
 
        
          | Imogen Robertson |  
          | • | Harriet Westerman,
            mistress of Caveley Park manor, and anatomist Gabriel Crowther, in
            the 1780s, in West Sussex, England |  
 
        
          | L.C. Tyler |  
          | • | Ethelred Tressider: a
            mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle,
            in West Sussex, England |  
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