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Portrait of Martin Suter Martin Suter, Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
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Suter, Martin

The Swiss author Martin Suter was born and raised in Zurich. He began to write early, decided to make writing his livelihood, and at the age of nineteen he became a copywriter. In the 1970s, he travelled all over the world writing travel features for Geo magazine, he became a popular columnist, playwright and author of screenplays for film and television until he subsequently gave up writing...

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Philip Marlowe

Gender: Male

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe is the archetype of the hardboiled American private eye. Many subsequent authors of crime fiction have found inspiration in the lonesome, brooding detective. Marlowe is a former investigator at the district attorney’s office of Los Angeles County, he is well read, interested in social issues, and he moves as effortlessly in the upper echelons of society as in bac...

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