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Pattison, Eliot

The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father; his mother was a bank official. As a child, he devoured books and often disappeared into the forest to read. An aunt who was a librarian in the American army used to supply him with literature from the various countries where she was stationed. Pattison himself says that the...

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David Ash

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An ‘occult’ detective in Great Britain who solves cases with supernatural elements. David Ash, who is the main character in three novels by horror-fiction writer James Herbert, is middle-aged, has thick, untidy hair – partly grey – and blue eyes. He is critical of his superiors, cynical, but despite his successes also insecure, which means that he drinks too much and has problems getting close to...

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