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Sample of authors
Leon, Donna
The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful...
Literary figures
Ganesh Ghote
Gender: Male
A pleasant, if rather naïve police detective in Bombay, India, who has great respect for his self-important superiors and his temperamental, beautiful wife Protima. Ganesh Vinayak Ghote loves her and their son Ved – and his job. He is usually called in when a mysterious and bizarre crime has been committed, and with great patience – and quite a lot of luck – he finds the answers in a row of novels...