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DeMille, Nelson

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a Canadian father and American-Italian mother. When he was still young, the family moved to Long Island. In 1962 he graduated from Elmont Memorial High School where he was on the high school football and track running teams. After three years at Hofstra University, Hempstead,...

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Gervase Fen

Gender: Male

Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, as well as an amateur detective in a number of humorous crime stories by Edmund Crispin (pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery). Gervase Fen is a middle-aged, jolly family father with wavy hair who enthusiastically deals with the criminal mysteries he happens to get involved in. By his side he often has the sensible Chief...

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