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Leonard, Elmore

The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile industry, the family often moved homes. They lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before finally settling in Detroit in 1934. Leonard graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943, after which he did his military service in the Navy and was sent to...

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Tromp Kramer

Gender: Male

In the very first books, he is a brusque, prejudiced gentleman for whom one can feel little sympathy, but author James McClure lets him gradually develop to the better. Tromp ‘Trompie’ Kramer is a large man and white and is employed by the crime squad of the police department in the fictive town of Trekkersburg in South Africa. He lives with the widow Fourie, and works together with his Zulu ser...

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