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Portrait image of E.W. Hornung Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906

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Hornung, E.W.

The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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Henry Poggioli

Gender: Male

Psychogist, philosopher and – not least – criminologist. Dr Henry Poggioli, employed by Ohio State University, is a versatile gentleman who, with the help of psychology, solves mysteries in various place in and outside the USA – albeit rarely in Ohio. Little is known about him personally: he is a bachelor, good-looking, but he ages quite a lot over the years. T.S. Stribling wrote a long series of...

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