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Portrait image of Claude Izner Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Izner, Claude

Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a bouquiniste, who owned a bookstall on the banks of the Seine and lived with his family in a cheap boarding house on the outskirts of Paris. Liliane, born in 1940, has had a career as a film producer and scriptwriter who changed track as the the French film industry became ...

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Handsome (Bonifacius) Kusak

Gender: Male

He is tall and broad-shouldered, and looks like a film star – which is what he dreams of becoming. But Bonifacius ‘Handsome’ Kusak – his surname is sometimes written as Kuzak, and in Swedish translations he is called ‘Snyggis’ – is a photographer with little money who travels around with his colleague ‘Bingo’ Riggs and is forever getting into difficulties which force them to be detectives in books...

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