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Sample of authors
Rosenhayn, Paul
German journalist and internationally acclaimed author of detective stories, best known for his more than forty screenplays
Paul Rosenhayn was born in Hamburg. His father was a captain in the merchant navy, and the family often moved. He attended school in England for several years and completed his education in Germany. He enrolled at law school, but after the first semester he decided he...
Literary figures
Peter Duluth
Gender: Male
When his wife, Magdalena, dies in a fire, he starts drinking, becomes an alcoholic and ends up in a mental hospital. There, the young blond theatre agent Peter Duluth meets actress Iris Pattison, who is being treated for a depression. They get married after a while, and solve a number of murder cases, often in theatre settings, which have been described by Patrick Quentin (pseudonym for Richard...