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Sample of authors
Carr, John Dickson
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...
Literary figures
Dave (David) Brandstetter
Gender: Male
He is the most famous homosexual problem-solver in crime fiction thanks to the twelve novels that Joseph Hansen wrote about him. ‘Dave’ Brandstetter is a middle-aged investigator for an insurance company in Los Angeles, later becoming a freelancer. He is tough and worn out, and is endlessly sad since his boyfriend died. As opposed to many other literary figures, he never gets any older in the boo...