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Sample of authors
Lemaitre, Pierre
Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been translated into some 20 languages.
Little is known about his private life. He was born in Paris and grew up in Aubervilliers and Drancy, Île-de-France. Lemaitre is a trained psychologist, but mainly taught French and American literature at adult education and librarian co...
Literary figures
A.J. Raffles
Gender: Male
He is an expert in two areas – cricket and theft. A.J. (as he is usually called) Raffles is the most famous literary master thief of all time, and to this day people speak of a “Raffles heist” when someone commits a rare and sophisticated theft. He is a man of the world, skilled at disguise, and he moves in the best circles. However, E.W. Hornung finally lets him die a hero’s death in the Boer War...