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Portrait image of Pierre Boileau Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)

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Boileau, Pierre

Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary...

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Tabor Süden

Gender: Male

For eleven years, Chief Inspector Süden led the section in the police department in Munich that looks for missing people. But he tired of that, resigned and moved to Cologne where he worked as a waiter, according to his creator Friedrich Ani. After several years, Süden returned, however, to his home city, and became a private detective. He is renowned for his silence – he doesn’t ask many quest...

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