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Mendoza, Eduardo

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...

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Toby (Tobias) Peters

Gender: Male

He is actually called Tobias Leon Pevsner, and has been a police officer, which his brother Phil still is. He is a restless and violent man who is eventually fired, after which his wife leaves him. He becomes a security guard but is fired again, and now ends up a tired private detective for stars in Hollywood. According to Stuart M. Kaminsky, Toby Peters is middle-aged and shabby – and he can’t fo...

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