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O'Donnell, Peter

Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime reporter. O’Donnell attended Catford Central School in London, but he soon dropped out and began to write for youth magazines. In 1936, at the age of sixteen, he was employed to write comic strips.
He was drafted in 1938. During the first few years of his military service he was st...

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Syster Pelagia

Gender: Female

Around the year 1900 – according to author Boris Akunin (pseudonym för Grigory Chkhartishvili) – the nun, Sister Pelagia lived in a nunnery in the little Russian town of Zavolzhsk. She wore spectacles, was a bit clumsy and despite her red hair and her freckles it was easy to ignore her. But she was very intelligent and attentive, and solved some tricky crime cases to the great satisfaction of Bish...

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