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Portrait image of Friedrich Glauser Friedrich Glauser in Münsingen 1931
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Glauser, Friedrich

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland. Glauser's life can best be described as a series of disasters. His mother died when he was four years old, his father remarried and young Friedrich had a hard time adapting to his father's strict regime. He was sent to boarding school in Switzerland and was sent down, officially...

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Hugh Curtis

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Young, ambitious, newly-employed journalist on the London newspaper The Record. He is charming and has good looks, but nevertheless has problems in his job – especially when he must compete against Mollie Bourne, a beautiful, red-haired star reporter on the competitor The Courier. But they get on well, sometimes cooperating, and create headlines by solving murder cases in three books by Paul S...

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