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Sample of authors
Manotti, Dominique
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made aware of the ...
Literary figures
John Dortmunder
Gender: Male
He is one of the most cunning thieves in the USA: he carefully plans the most fantastic coups, and has only been caught twice when he was young. Unfortunately, John Archibald Dortmunder is dogged with bad luck: his ingenious plans often go wrong at the last moment for the most incredible reasons. His adventures are described in more than a dozen entertaining – often farcical – novels by Donald E....