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Barnard, Robert

Robert Barnard was an English crime writer and scholar of international fame. He was born in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. In 1956, he went up to Oxford to read literature, possibly encouraged by his father who wrote unremarkable romances and young adult books. After graduating in 1959, Barnard taught at university in Australia 1961–1966. He married Louise Tabor there in 1963. They were making p...

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Lew Fonesca

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Middle-aged, thin and bald gentleman who worked in a lawyer’s office in Chicago until his wife was killed by a motorist who absconded from the scene. Lew Fonesca took his car and drove until it gave up. Now he works as a freelance legal assistant and process server in Sarasota, Florida. He also a sad and unwilling detective when somebody asks for help, says author Stuart M. Kaminsky.

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