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Portrait of John Katzenbach John Katzenbach at a book fair in Buenos Aires
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Katzenbach, John

American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US attorney general. John’s father – who came from a wealthy family – served in several cities, and John was first educated at the religious Sidwell Friends School, then at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and finally at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,...

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Gideon Fell

Gender: Male

The enormous Dr Fell, whose physical traits are modelled on G.K. Chesterton, is one of crime fiction’s foremost problem-solvers when it comes to ‘locked-room’ mysteries and other ‘impossible’ crimes. He also works on an ever-growing doctoral thesis about English drinking habits from bygone days, he likes his beer and is married – although his wife is only mentioned in a few of John Dickson Carr’s...

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