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Portrait image of Robin (1940-) Cook Photo: Patryk Korzeniecki (2008) - CC BY-SA 3.0

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Cook, Robin (f. 1940)

American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which have ended high up on the American bestseller lists. Robert Brian Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Queens in the same city. When he was eight years old, the family moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he grew up. His father was an artist, his...

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Abner

Gender: Male

His last name is never mentioned, but in the backwoods of 19th-century Virginia he is known and respected as Uncle Abner. In a series of classic detective stories by Melville Davisson Post, collected in two volumes, he solves strange crimes using common sense, life experience and his faith in God. He is an older man, big and burly, with a deep voice and a gray beard, and always has the Bible in...

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