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Sample of authors
Harris, Thomas
American author who has become known for his thrillers with their atmosphere of horror about the doctor, psychopath and cannibal Hannibal Lector; all of them were bestsellers and have been turned into films. Thomas Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but already when he was a child the family moved to his father’s home district in Rich, Mississippi. His father worked on a farm and the son had m...
Literary figures
Dagobert Trostler
Gender: Male
A rich, and in posh circles highly regarded amateur criminologist and music-lover in the Vienna of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, often called Detective Dagobert in the short stories that author Balduin Groller (pseudonym for Adalbert Goldscheider) wrote about him. Dagobert Trostler is a trim middle-aged bon viveur and bachelor with a dark beard and hair (although thin on top), glowing dark eyes...