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Hammesfahr, Petra
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women. She was born in Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, where she still lives, and grew up in nearby Kirchherten and Niederembt. She also lived in Kirch-Grottenherten and other places before she settled in Kerpen near Cologne in 1977. An avid reader as child, she joined a retail training...
Literary figures
Archie (Archibald) Cribb
Gender: Male
Usually he is just called Sergeant Cribb, and has several given names: he has been called Richard as well as Daniel, but according to author Peter Lovesey his real name is Archibald and he is called ‘Archie’. He is middle-aged and stubborn, and works for Scotland Yard in London in the days of Queen Victoria. By his side he has his patient ‘Watson’, detective constable Edward Thackeray.