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Portrait of Aaron Elkins Photo: Bob Lampert (2010) CC BY 3.0

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Elkins, Aaron

Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College, Manhattan (BA 1956), Madison University of Arizona, Tucson (MA 1960), and received a doctorate in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. He has also taught at universities, primarily in California, but also in Heidelberg, Germany, between 1976 and...

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Dickson McCunn

Gender: Male

The author John Buchan’s most original detective is the retired grocer Dickson McCunn, a 60+ man with a romantic heart and a commercially inclined brain. He is withdrawn and his appearance is rather nondescript, and when he becomes involved in criminal cases he surprises his friends as well as his enemies with his resolute actions.

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