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Sample of authors
Izner, Claude
Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a bouquiniste, who owned a bookstall on the banks of the Seine and lived with his family in a cheap boarding house on the outskirts of Paris. Liliane, born in 1940, has had a career as a film producer and scriptwriter who changed track as the the French film industry became ...
Literary figures
Dangerous Davies
Gender: Male
A worn-out, tired detective constable in London. His first name is unknown, everybody calls him ‘Dangerous’ which is pure satire, his creator Leslie Thomas carefully points out. ‘Dangerous’ Davies is single, middle-aged, shabbily dressed, has a grey face, rents a room from a strict elderly lady who forces him to let his St Bernhard dog, Kitty, live in a scrap car. But he nevertheless manages to so...