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Sample of authors
Japrisot, Sébastien
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents. After his father left the family, Japrisot was educated at a Jesuit school and then read philosophy at Sorbonne. He was an intelligent, but rebellious student prone to skipping lectures. At the age of sixteen, he began his debut novel, The False Start (1950, Les mal...
Literary figures
Nick (Nicholas) Miller
Gender: Male
A police detective with a degree in Law who lives in the centre of London and doesn’t really need to work: he comes from a well-off family and has private means, according to author Harry (actually Henry) Patterson. But Nicholas ‘Nick’ Miller likes his job, even though he must take on difficult cases. He is single, and a tough, somewhat rough-mannered man, an expert at karate and judo, as well as...