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Portrait image of Friedrich Glauser Friedrich Glauser in Münsingen 1931
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Glauser, Friedrich

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland. Glauser's life can best be described as a series of disasters. His mother died when he was four years old, his father remarried and young Friedrich had a hard time adapting to his father's strict regime. He was sent to boarding school in Switzerland and was sent down, officially...

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Nigel Strangeways

Gender: Male

He is tall and slim, has blond hair and blue, somewhat short-sighted eyes. He resembles the poet W.H. Auden, and his creator Nicholas Blake (pseudonym for the poet Cecil Day Lewis) has admitted that he had his good friend as model. Nigel Strangeways is a private detective in London, and at first lives together with his wife Georgia Cavendish, but after her death in the war, with the sculptress...

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