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Sample of authors
Wetering, Janwillem van de
Janwillem (actually Jan Willem) van de Wetering was a Dutch author born in Rotterdam to a merchant family. After graduating with a degree in business administration, van de Wetering travelled to Cape Town at the age of nineteen. He had been offered a job by one of his father’s business contacts, but he lost it when he refused to move to Johannesburg. He remained in South Africa for another six y...
Literary figures
Touie (Toussaint) Moore
Gender: Male
He is considered the first credible African-American private detective in crime fiction. Toussaint “Touie” Moore, however, left the profession at his own request to become a mail carrier, but was forced for financial reasons to take a new assignment as a detective when his wife Frances became pregnant. He is depicted by his creator Ed Lacy (pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg) as a pipe smoker and a...