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Sample of authors
Krabbé, Tim
Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and his grandfather Hendrik Maarten Krabbé where both well-known painters; his mother, Margreet Reiss, was a translator and author of travel books. Tim Krabbé’s brothers are the actor Jeroen Krabbé and the multimedia artist Mirko Krabbé. Krabbé was raised by his mother after his...
Literary figures
Ambrose Chitterwick
Gender: Male
A very different detective hero: a mild-eyed, very discreet elderly English gentleman with a totally nondescript appearance. This doesn’t prevent amateur criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick – to the great annoyance of Scotland Yard’s top brass – from solving a handful really tricky murder cases in books by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). How he actually succeeds in achieving this is a mystery, not least for...