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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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Patrick Grant

Gender: Male

Professor Patrick Grant – whose surname comes from the whisky brand, his creator Margaret Yorke has revealed – lectures in Art History in Oxford. He is somewhat absentminded, often quotes Shakespeare, but for a principal protagonist in crime novels he is really an unusually bland figure without any special characteristics. He is, however, a clever amateur detective who solves cases in five who...

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