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Goodis, David

The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have been labelled classics. This applies not least to his second novel, Dark Passage (1946), which was successfully filmed in 1947 with Laureen Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the starring roles. Goodis started his literary career by writing for pulp magazines and paperback pub...

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Francis Hancock

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His father was an Englishman, his mother from India. Francis Hancock himself is a funeral director in London during the Second World War, when the Germans bombed the city. His experiences during the First World War, when he was a soldier, have given him mental problems. He is very withdrawn, which doesn’t, however, prevent him from being a clever – albeit reluctant – amateur detective in a suite o...

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