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Carr, John Dickson
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...
Literary figures
Gideon Oliver
Gender: Male
Oliver is an anthropologist with an international reputation as the ‘Skeleton detective’. His speciality is skeleton research, and the police in several countries make use of his knowledge when it comes to determining the age and sex of a skeleton and the time of death. He is a bachelor in the first novels, but subsequently marries Julie Tendler, who becomes an important assistant to him in the bo...