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Portrait image of August Derleth Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)

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Derleth, August

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...

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Peter Duluth

Gender: Male

When his wife, Magdalena, dies in a fire, he starts drinking, becomes an alcoholic and ends up in a mental hospital. There, the young blond theatre agent Peter Duluth meets actress Iris Pattison, who is being treated for a depression. They get married after a while, and solve a number of murder cases, often in theatre settings, which have been described by Patrick Quentin (pseudonym for Richard...

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