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Sample of authors
Malet, Léo
French author born as Léon Malet in Montpellier. Having lost his parents when he was four years old, he was raised by his paternal grandparents. He left school at an early age and started to work, among other things, in a bank and in a factory. In his spare time he sold anarchist magazines. When he was sixteen he ran off to Paris where he tried to make a living singing at a cabaret in Montmartre ...
Literary figures
Dave (David) Brandstetter
Gender: Male
He is the most famous homosexual problem-solver in crime fiction thanks to the twelve novels that Joseph Hansen wrote about him. ‘Dave’ Brandstetter is a middle-aged investigator for an insurance company in Los Angeles, later becoming a freelancer. He is tough and worn out, and is endlessly sad since his boyfriend died. As opposed to many other literary figures, he never gets any older in the boo...