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Sample of authors
MacLean, Alistair
The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair MacGill-Eain (his Gaelic name was anglicised by the British authorities). His father was a Church of Scotland minister. While the author was still a baby, the family moved to a farm near Daviot in the Highlands. After the death of his father, his mother returned to Glasgow with...
Literary figures
Tromp Kramer
Gender: Male
In the very first books, he is a brusque, prejudiced gentleman for whom one can feel little sympathy, but author James McClure lets him gradually develop to the better. Tromp ‘Trompie’ Kramer is a large man and white and is employed by the crime squad of the police department in the fictive town of Trekkersburg in South Africa. He lives with the widow Fourie, and works together with his Zulu ser...