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Sample of authors
Leonard, Elmore
The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile industry, the family often moved homes. They lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before finally settling in Detroit in 1934. Leonard graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943, after which he did his military service in the Navy and was sent to...
Literary figures
Henri Bencolin
Gender: Male
Bencolin is a sardonic gentleman, with a high position in the Paris police force and is described as a ‘Mephistopheles smoking a cigar’. Little is known about his background and private life, but he is described as rather unfeeling, even cruel, and lives entirely for solving what are called ‘impossible crimes’ in John Dickson Carr’s earliest novels with elements of horror. On occasion, Bencolin is...