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Vidocq, Eugène François

Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and master-of-disguise Eugène François Vidocq. And one can well ask whether anybody has written an autobiography with such great literary influence. He also features under his own name as well as rather obvious aliases in a number of books, and has been the subject of a lot of films, T...

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Stan (Standish) Rice

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According to author Baynard Kendrick, Miles Standish ‘Stan’ Rice usually introduces himself as ‘Stan Rice – the hungry’. And he certainly can eat, lots, but nevertheless the 190cm-tall sheriff is as thin ‘as a skeleton’. He also has yellowy blonde hair, blue eyes and wears ill-fitting, wrinkled clothes. He is active in Florida, where he solves cases which often include what seem to be supernatural...

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