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Portrait of James McClure Photo: David Levenson/Getty Images (1991)

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McClure, James

The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently born in Johannesburg. The family soon moved to Pretoria and then to Pietermaritzburg in Natal. McClure was educated at Scottsville School in 1947–51, Cowan House in 1952–54 and Maritzburg College in 1955–58, all in Pietermaritzburg. He worked as a photographer between 1958 and 19...

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Rinus de Gier

Gender: Male

He is a youthful and athletic police detective, a convinced bachelor despite the fact that he likes women and has many female ‘friends’. He comes from Rotterdam, but works in Amsterdam, where he partners his phlegmatic older colleague Henk Grijpstra in police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Rinus de Gier is a dreamer, very fond of cats, and an amateur musician – he often has a flute in his po...

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