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James, Peter

The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...

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André Brunel

Gender: Male

Wealthy French private detective, living in a country mansion which is managed by his butler Prosper. André Brunel is about 35 years old, of average height, with neatly barbered hair which has started to go grey on his forehead, and has a rather square-set pale face. He is primarily interested in cases which seem to be inexplicable or supernatural and he solves them through logical deduction in ...

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