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Orczy, Emmuska
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary. Her parents were Baron Félix Orczy de Orczi and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege. Both parents were descended from a prominent Austro-Hungarian noble family and related to many others. Félix Orczy was the son of a royal councillor and a well-...
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George Palmer-Jones
Gender: Male
Mr Palmer-Jones is a retired English government civil servant and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist who travels around Great Britain together with his wife to look at birds. It is a happy marriage, but Palmer-Jones has a problem with a certain inferiority complex and a fear of doing something wrong. It doesn’t, however, prevent him from solving murder mysteries in whodunits by Ann Cleeves.