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Fowles, John

John Robert Fowles was born in a middle-class family in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea. His father, Robert Fowles, dreamt of a career in the legal profession, but when the First World War broke out he was instead forced to take over the family's tobacco business. His mother, Gladys May, was a housewife. Fowles grew up in the security of a terraced housing estate, but later in life he confessed...

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Robert Macdonald

Gender: Male

Scotland Yard’s Robert Macdonald is of Scottish extraction but lives in London and solves cases in various parts of Great Britain in a long row of books by E.C.R. Lorac (pseudonym for Edith ‘Carol’ Rivett). He is of early middle-age, tall, trim and with an athletic build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He is also a bachelor and intends to remain so, and likes to go on long walks in the count...

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