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Ludlum, Robert
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
Literary figures
Melville Fairr
Gender: Male
It is hard to believe that New Yorker Melville Fairr is a successful private detective: he is little, with a friendly but nondescript face and a quiet voice – and he is grey: grey hair, grey eyes, always grey suits. He would rather listen than talk, but comes to quick and logical conclusions in three crime novels that Michael Venning (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) has written about him.