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Portrait of Desmond Bagley Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (1978)

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Bagley, Desmond

British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...

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Jakob Franck

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Detective Chief Inspector Jakob Franck in Munich is a pensioner, but the memory of all the murder victims and the despair of their loved ones doesn’t leave him in peace. Since his divorce, he lives alone in a slightly out-of-the-way part of Munich, which is also the home city of author Friedrich Ani. Franck is a loner, but when he is visited by the father of a dead girl, he starts working again w...

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