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Sample of authors
Haas, Wolf
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most promising and prize-winning authors writing in German. Several of his books have been adapted for the screen and translated into several languages. He grew up in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer near Salzburg. Both his parents worked in the restaurant trade. He attended the Borromäum ...
Literary figures
John J. Malone
Gender: Male
He is a lawyer in Chicago, always longing for a drink, willing ladies and rich clients. John Joseph Malone is a slovenly, sweaty and red-faced little man, always wearing a creased suit. But he is a clever and unconventional detective in the entertaining novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig), in which he usually has the married couple Jake and Helene Justus by his side.