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DeMille, Nelson

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a Canadian father and American-Italian mother. When he was still young, the family moved to Long Island. In 1962 he graduated from Elmont Memorial High School where he was on the high school football and track running teams. After three years at Hofstra University, Hempstead,...

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Solar Pons

Gender: Male

He is tall and thin and very sharp-witted, the master detective who lives at 7B Praed Street in London, and who solves cases together with Dr Lyndon Parker. This sounds very similar to Sherlock Holmes, and it is: August Derleth wrote a large number of Sherlock-Holmes pastiches, primarily in the form of short stories, about Solar Pons, who does, however, have a somewhat lighter personality of his...

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