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James, Peter

The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...

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Tecumseh Fox

Gender: Male

His full name is William Tecumseh Sherman Fox, but his friends simply call him ‘Tec’. He is a private detective with his own firm, well-off, likes to socialise with beautiful women, engages in charity on a large scale and lives on a farm in Westchester County outside New York together with lots of animals. And he solves difficult crime cases in three detective stories by author Rex Stout.

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