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Sample of authors
Smith, Martin Cruz
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, was an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father was a jazz musician and his mother a jazz singer. She was of Pueblo descent and was active in the Native American civil rights movement. The family moved homes several times during Smith’s youth, but he predominantly grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Germantown A...
Literary figures
Jakob Franck
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Jakob Franck in Munich is a pensioner, but the memory of all the murder victims and the despair of their loved ones doesn’t leave him in peace. Since his divorce, he lives alone in a slightly out-of-the-way part of Munich, which is also the home city of author Friedrich Ani. Franck is a loner, but when he is visited by the father of a dead girl, he starts working again w...