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Temple, Peter
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...
Literary figures
Nigel Strangeways
Gender: Male
He is tall and slim, has blond hair and blue, somewhat short-sighted eyes. He resembles the poet W.H. Auden, and his creator Nicholas Blake (pseudonym for the poet Cecil Day Lewis) has admitted that he had his good friend as model. Nigel Strangeways is a private detective in London, and at first lives together with his wife Georgia Cavendish, but after her death in the war, with the sculptress...