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Portrait of Joe R. Lansdale Photo: Titti Fabi / Camera Press/TT (2005)

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Lansdale, Joe R.

American author, combat athlete and self-defence expert, born and raised in Gladewater, Texas. The incredibly productive Joe R. (Richard) Lansdale has written novels and short stories in many different genres: westerns, horror, science fiction, children’s books, erotica, fantasy, crime, thrillers etc. He has also written screenplays for TV and texts for several graphic series. He is, however, p...

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Barbara Havers

Gender: Female

Contrary to many other female police officers in crime fiction Barbara Havers is not a good-looking woman. Her creator, Elizabeth George, claims she made her deliberately unattractive and unkempt. Havers has cooperation issues and she is moody, stubborn and temperamental. Yet she has a functional working relationship with her complete opposite, the well bred, neatly turned out Detective...

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