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Portrait of Martin Suter Martin Suter, Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
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Suter, Martin

The Swiss author Martin Suter was born and raised in Zurich. He began to write early, decided to make writing his livelihood, and at the age of nineteen he became a copywriter. In the 1970s, he travelled all over the world writing travel features for Geo magazine, he became a popular columnist, playwright and author of screenplays for film and television until he subsequently gave up writing...

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Race Williams

Gender: Male

He is considered to be the very first of the most cynical, violent and so-called hard-boiled detectives in crime fiction. He shoots first, and asks questions later, and is the main character in a suite of novels and short stories by Carroll John Daly. Race Williams is a large and strong man, quick-witted and skilled with weapons. He works first in New York and Chicago, and later on the American...

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