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Portrait of Norman Mailer Photo: Ray Howard /AP Photo/TT (1969)

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Mailer, Norman

The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but grew up in Brooklyn. In social terms he came from the Jewish lower middle class. After obtaining a degree in engineering at the University of Harvard, he participated during the final phase of the Second World War in the battles in the Pacific Ocean, among other...

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Charles Honeybath

Gender: Male

He has a rather expressionless appearance, but is well established as an artist. Above all, Charles Honeybath is known as a portrait painter. Unfortunately, now and then he happens to stumble across bodies, which leads to him unwillingly having to act the amateur detective. He lives in London, and on one occasion works together with his creator Michael Innes’ most famous problem-solver, D...

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