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Rankin, Ian

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a grocery store. His mother worked in a school canteen. There were few books at home, and Rankin began to visit his local library as a child and began to write short stories as a teenager. He attended Denend Primary School in Cardendan and later Auchterderran Junior High at...

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Henry Poggioli

Gender: Male

Psychogist, philosopher and – not least – criminologist. Dr Henry Poggioli, employed by Ohio State University, is a versatile gentleman who, with the help of psychology, solves mysteries in various place in and outside the USA – albeit rarely in Ohio. Little is known about him personally: he is a bachelor, good-looking, but he ages quite a lot over the years. T.S. Stribling wrote a long series of...

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