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Parker, Robert B.
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker graduated from Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1957. He served in the US Army infantry in Korea 1954–56.
After graduating in 1957 he worked at an insurance company and in advertising. His...
Literary figures
Nigel Strangeways
Gender: Male
He is tall and slim, has blond hair and blue, somewhat short-sighted eyes. He resembles the poet W.H. Auden, and his creator Nicholas Blake (pseudonym for the poet Cecil Day Lewis) has admitted that he had his good friend as model. Nigel Strangeways is a private detective in London, and at first lives together with his wife Georgia Cavendish, but after her death in the war, with the sculptress...