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Sample of authors
Goodwin, Jason
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author and estate agent John Michell, were briefly involved in a relationship that broke up before their son was born. Jason was adopted by his mother’s husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, but when Jason was three years old, his mother left her husband for a younger m...
Literary figures
Pierre Chambrun
Gender: Male
He was born in France and was active in the resistance during the Second World War; now he runs the luxury Beaumont Hotel in New York. Pierre Chambrun is a short bachelor with a square-set body and dark eyes. He demands that everything at the hotel should work perfectly and must for that reason himself solve the crimes that to his horror take place there in the books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym...