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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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Domare Di
Gender: Male
Judge Dee is based on a real person, the legendary seventh century Chinese judge Dee Jen-Djieh. Stories about him began to be written down early on. They were discovered by the Dutch sinologist Robert van Gulik who wrote a series of mystery stories based on him. Most are based on van Gulik’s own storylines featuring Dee.