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Jesse, F. Tennyson

A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur criminologist. She was known under a few variations of her name – born Wynifried Margaret Jesse, her given name often spelled Winifred. As a journalist, she sometimes called herself Wynifried Margaret Tennyson, though her obituaries mentioned her as Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Har...

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José da Silva

Gender: Male

He is tall and dark, with a thin, sun-tanned face which is distinguished by a well-trimmed moustache. He comes from a ‘fine’ family, which has not prevented him from getting a job with the police force, where José da Silva – called Zé by his friends – is promoted to police captain in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He is a smoker, doesn’t like flying and successfully solves cases in a suite of novels by...

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