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Abrahams, Peter (f. 1947)
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in his parent’s cabin in Quebec, Canada. He earned his BA at Williams College at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1968; between 1968 and 1970 he was a harpoon fisherman in the Bahamas. He then worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBS) in Ottawa as a producer, among o...
Literary figures
Touie (Toussaint) Moore
Gender: Male
He is considered the first credible African-American private detective in crime fiction. Toussaint “Touie” Moore, however, left the profession at his own request to become a mail carrier, but was forced for financial reasons to take a new assignment as a detective when his wife Frances became pregnant. He is depicted by his creator Ed Lacy (pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg) as a pipe smoker and a...