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Piglia, Ricardo

Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...

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C.D. Sloan

Gender: Male

An esteemed Chief Inspector has many names – not least when it comes to Christopher Dennis Sloan in the books by Catherine Aird. For colleagues and the public (and readers) he is known as C.D., for relatives and friends as ‘Seedy’. He is of early middle age, works in the fictional county of West Calleshire in England, where he was also born, and is married to Margaret who – in the middle of a murd...

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