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Sample of authors
Deitmer, Sabine
The German author of crime novels Sabine Deitmar was born in Jena, Thüringen, and grew up in Düsseldorf. Deitmer became interested in crime fiction at an early age, and wrote her literature MA thesis on the work of Agatha Christie. After working as a teacher and translator in the UK, southern Germany and Berlin, she moved to the Ruhr district in the 1970s where she became a high school teacher. D...
Literary figures
Tiger Mann
Gender: Male
He was actually christened Tiger, and is an arch-reactionary secret agent in a handful of novels by Mickey Spillane. Mann reminds one a lot of Spillane’s hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer, but there are some elements of James Bond in him too. During the war, he was active in the OSS, and was then recruited by a private, secret organisation which provides ‘heavy’ support for American projects inter...