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Sample of authors
MacDonald, John D.
The American author John Dann MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father (who was of Scottish ancestry) pursued a career at the Savage Arms Corporation. When he was offered a promotion in 1926, the family moved to Utica, New York, where his son attended high school, graduating as late as in 1932 on account of a bout of scarlet fever in 1928-29. During his illness, MacDonald read...
Literary figures
Jakob Franck
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Jakob Franck in Munich is a pensioner, but the memory of all the murder victims and the despair of their loved ones doesn’t leave him in peace. Since his divorce, he lives alone in a slightly out-of-the-way part of Munich, which is also the home city of author Friedrich Ani. Franck is a loner, but when he is visited by the father of a dead girl, he starts working again w...