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Portrait image of Pierre Lemaitre Photo: Berenice Bautista / AP Photo / TT (2017)

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Lemaitre, Pierre

Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been translated into some 20 languages.
Little is known about his private life. He was born in Paris and grew up in Aubervilliers and Drancy, Île-de-France. Lemaitre is a trained psychologist, but mainly taught French and American literature at adult education and librarian co...

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MacDougal Duff

Gender: Male

Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...

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