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Keeler, Harry Stephen

The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy. They have been described as surreal and absurd, and some even as unreadable. He made up his own vocabulary and dialects, and he completely disregarded logical plotlines.
Keeler published nothing in English towards the end of his life, but a...

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Francis Hancock

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His father was an Englishman, his mother from India. Francis Hancock himself is a funeral director in London during the Second World War, when the Germans bombed the city. His experiences during the First World War, when he was a soldier, have given him mental problems. He is very withdrawn, which doesn’t, however, prevent him from being a clever – albeit reluctant – amateur detective in a suite o...

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