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Wright, Willard Huntington

Willard Huntington Wright was an American critic and editor. He was born in Virginia, attended Harvard and later studied art in Paris and Munich. He was employed as an art and literature critic at the Los Angeles Times and between 1912 and 1914 he edited Smart Set magazine, popular among the American jet set. He also wrote several seminal works on art, philosophy, literature and culture as well...

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Hercule Poirot

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The Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot worked for the Belgian police until Agatha Christie transferred him to England. Poirot is characterised by his vanity, his strong French accent, his egg-shaped head and his impressive moustache, and he solves crime in a string of classic whodunits. Poirot eventually became so famous that The Times published an obituary when Christie killed him off in...

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