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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
Literary figures
Tecumseh Fox
Gender: Male
His full name is William Tecumseh Sherman Fox, but his friends simply call him ‘Tec’. He is a private detective with his own firm, well-off, likes to socialise with beautiful women, engages in charity on a large scale and lives on a farm in Westchester County outside New York together with lots of animals. And he solves difficult crime cases in three detective stories by author Rex Stout.