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Portrait of Derek Raymond Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images (1990)

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Raymond, Derek

English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...

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Jimmie Haswell

Gender: Male

A jolly young criminal lawyer, working in London. He has a minor role in the English writer Herbert Adams’ first crime novel, The Secret of Bogey House, but subsequently solves tricky cases in more than half a dozen whodunits, and is then more active as a detective than as a lawyer. In his free time, Haswell plays golf and quietly flirts with young ladies until he finally marries one of them.

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