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Sample of authors
Deitmer, Sabine
The German author of crime novels Sabine Deitmar was born in Jena, Thüringen, and grew up in Düsseldorf. Deitmer became interested in crime fiction at an early age, and wrote her literature MA thesis on the work of Agatha Christie. After working as a teacher and translator in the UK, southern Germany and Berlin, she moved to the Ruhr district in the 1970s where she became a high school teacher. D...
Literary figures
Bony (Napoleon) Bonaparte
Gender: Male
He is a well-educated son of an unknown white father, while his mother was an aborigine. The son has inherited his sense for tracking from his mother’s people, and is a successful police officer in Australia, which is described in books by Arthur W. Upfield. Napoleon Bonaparte (christened at a children’s home) called Bony, is slim, with blue eyes, dark hair and light brown skin. He is married to M...