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Temple, Peter

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...

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Aristide Pamplemousse

Gender: Male

He is obliged to resign from the police after a scandal which included a large number of ballet girls. Aristide Pamplemousse maintains his innocence, not least in front of his wife Doucette, and becomes a food-tester for a restaurant guide. He travels together with his bloodhound Pommes Frites around France in a suite of farcical detective stories by Michael Bond, eats, and solves murder case in...

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