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Charteris, Leslie
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy physician and company manager who claimed he was related to an ancient Chinese imperial family. Charteris' mother, Lydia Florence Bowyer, was English. Young Leslie was educated at home and on the many journeys he made with his parents; he claimed to have toured the world three...
Literary figures
John Jericho
Gender: Male
He is a well-built, strong man who is instantly recognisable thanks to his impressive red beard, and he is often likened to a Viking. But the Korea veteran John Jericho is a successful and well-paid – albeit seen as somewhat controversial – artist in Greenwich Village who because of his sense of justice and his curiosity solves crimes in a suite of novels and (primarily) short stories by Hugh Pen...