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Portrait image of Walter Mosley Photo: Robert Ahlbom / Forflex

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Mosley, Walter

American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish background and his father was Afro-American. Walter Mosley had at first an irregular school life, but his mother encouraged him to read, even classic literature. In 1964, the family moved to Westside in Los Angeles, and in 1970 he matriculated from Alexander Hamilton High...

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Anthony Gethryn

Gender: Male

As the only son of an English estate-owner and a Spanish ex-model, dancer etc., the dark-haired, tall Anthony Ruthven Gethryn has a mixed background. He is a colonel in the army, has been a secret agent, but is best known as a ‘gentleman detective’ of the classic English type. Already in author Philip MacDonald’s crime-novel debut, he meets his future wife the independent Lucia.

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