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Portrait of John Katzenbach John Katzenbach at a book fair in Buenos Aires
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Katzenbach, John

American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US attorney general. John’s father – who came from a wealthy family – served in several cities, and John was first educated at the religious Sidwell Friends School, then at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and finally at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,...

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John Silence

Gender: Male

Algernon Blackwood wrote only six short stories about John Silence, ‘physician extraordinary’, but the mysterious, rich doctor with unnatural psychic powers is nevertheless a classic as the ‘occult detective’. Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, he uses logical reasoning to expose ‘magical’ criminal deceptions, but uses his psychic ability to solve mysteries – the result is horror fiction with a detectiv...

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