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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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Margaret Campbell

Gender: Female

American forensic pathologist, whose background includes a messy private life, but who is known internationally in her profession. Margaret Campbell thus often cooperates with the police, for example in China, where she meets the young detective inspector Li Yan. They get on well professionally, and despite private disagreements they have a son, Li Jon, who grows up with his mother in the USA,...

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