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Portrait image of Peter Robinson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Robinson, Peter

Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest in attending school until he enrolled at the University of Leeds from which he graduated with a BA in English literature in 1974. Later the same year he moved to Canada where he attended the University of Windsor, Ontario, studying for an MA in English and creative writing...

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Jack (Flashgun) Casey

Gender: Male

Protagonist in a suite of hard-boiled detective stories by George Harmon Coxe. The tall, heavily built and dark-haired Jack Casey - called "Flashgun" or just "Flash" - is a skilled but temperamental press photographer who is struggling with an injured knee. He ages somewhat in the books - is between 30 and 45 years old - and is skilled when it comes to solving cases with the help of, among other...

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