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Schenkel, Andrea Maria
The German author Andrea Maria Schenkel was born and raised in Regensburg. Her parents were civil servants. Her mother and, particularly, her grandmother, often spoke about the old days, which awakened Schenkel's interest in storytelling. As a child she wrote short tales, often on a "bloody" subject, although because she was left-handed she was put off from writing school assignments. After...
Literary figures
Lee Arnold
Gender: Male
A former professional soldier and police officer, who runs a detective agency in the East End of London together with his female assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, who is a Muslim. Lee Arnold is divorced, but doesn’t lack female companions. And besides, he is good at fighting when necessary, according to author Barbara Nadel. But he suffers from painful memories of a father with violent tendencies, a...