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Pears, Iain

Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company director and his mother a teacher. Pears attended Warwick School and Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with an MA in 1979. He did post-graduate studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, and earned his PhD in 1982. Pears was a reporter for Channel 4, the BBC, and the German channel ZDF...

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Henry Poggioli

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Psychogist, philosopher and – not least – criminologist. Dr Henry Poggioli, employed by Ohio State University, is a versatile gentleman who, with the help of psychology, solves mysteries in various place in and outside the USA – albeit rarely in Ohio. Little is known about him personally: he is a bachelor, good-looking, but he ages quite a lot over the years. T.S. Stribling wrote a long series of...

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