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Portrait of Peter Spiegelman Photo: Dave Moore, St. Louis County Library (2011) CC BY 2.0

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Spiegelman, Peter

The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there all his life apart from a short period in Los Angeles. He began to write at a young age, creating his own "superheroes". He read a lot of crime fiction and poetry as a teenager, and he won an award in college for his poetry. Spiegelman read English at Vassar College, New York,...

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Peter Diamond

Gender: Male

Peter Diamond is a police officer, formerly stationed in London, and now working in Bath in Somerset. He is 50+, a widower and overweight with abominable dietary habits – ‘an ambulatory heart attack’, according to his creator Peter Lovesey. Already in the early books, Diamond left the police service, but returned after a couple of novels. Through his stubbornness and the way he ignores orders, he...

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