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Manchette, Jean-Patrick

Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in Marseille. In 1945, the family moved to Malakoff in the Paris area. In 1960, after finishing his upper-secondary education, he moved to Paris where he spent most of his life and where he read English at the Sorbonne.
Manchette joined the militant left during the Algerian War of...

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Richard Jury

Gender: Male

A melancholic and reasonably gloomy commissioner: this is explained by the author Martha Grimes by the fact that Richard Jury - the first name is rarely mentioned - was orphaned during the Second World War and had an unhappy upbringing. He is in the younger middle age, has auburn hair and a winning smile. He shys away from women and relationships, but likes children and gets along well with them.

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