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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Faye
The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when she was five years old and attended Grant High School in Valley Glen, graduating in 1970. She went on to read mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a BA in 1974. She met Jonathan Kellerman – later a major crime n...
Literary figures
Pierre Chambrun
Gender: Male
He was born in France and was active in the resistance during the Second World War; now he runs the luxury Beaumont Hotel in New York. Pierre Chambrun is a short bachelor with a square-set body and dark eyes. He demands that everything at the hotel should work perfectly and must for that reason himself solve the crimes that to his horror take place there in the books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym...