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Sample of authors
Japrisot, Sébastien
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents. After his father left the family, Japrisot was educated at a Jesuit school and then read philosophy at Sorbonne. He was an intelligent, but rebellious student prone to skipping lectures. At the age of sixteen, he began his debut novel, The False Start (1950, Les mal...
Literary figures
Perry (Peregrine) Trethowan
Gender: Male
He is from a wealthy, but eccentric, family, with which he has cut off contact. Now the slightly sardonic Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peregrine ‘Perry’ Trethowan lives in London with his wife Jan and son Daniel. But when he investigates the murder of his father, he is forced to re-establish contact with the family, after which it plays a certain – and not particularly welcome – role in his life,...