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O'Donnell, Peter
Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime reporter. O’Donnell attended Catford Central School in London, but he soon dropped out and began to write for youth magazines. In 1936, at the age of sixteen, he was employed to write comic strips.
He was drafted in 1938. During the first few years of his military service he was st...
Literary figures
André Brunel
Gender: Male
Wealthy French private detective, living in a country mansion which is managed by his butler Prosper. André Brunel is about 35 years old, of average height, with neatly barbered hair which has started to go grey on his forehead, and has a rather square-set pale face. He is primarily interested in cases which seem to be inexplicable or supernatural and he solves them through logical deduction in ...