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Sample of authors
Grangé, Jean-Christophe
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is known about his early life as he prefers not to talk about it. However, he has revealed that his mother lived in fear of his father, who suffered from schizophrenia with aggressive spells. Grangé and his mother sometimes stayed with his maternal grandmother.
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Literary figures
Solar Pons
Gender: Male
He is tall and thin and very sharp-witted, the master detective who lives at 7B Praed Street in London, and who solves cases together with Dr Lyndon Parker. This sounds very similar to Sherlock Holmes, and it is: August Derleth wrote a large number of Sherlock-Holmes pastiches, primarily in the form of short stories, about Solar Pons, who does, however, have a somewhat lighter personality of his...