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Portrait image of August Derleth Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)

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Derleth, August

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...

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Samuel Behrens

Gender: Male

Together with his colleague Daniel Calder, he forms one of the most lethal teams in British counter intelligence. Otherwise, he is an elderly, typically British gentleman, who busies himself with bee-keeping, plays chess and lives with an aunty in a little village in the county of Kent. Samuel Behrens is a linguistic expert, but like Calder is also a skilled car-driver and a clever detective,...

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