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Temple, Peter

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...

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Tecumseh Fox

Gender: Male

His full name is William Tecumseh Sherman Fox, but his friends simply call him ‘Tec’. He is a private detective with his own firm, well-off, likes to socialise with beautiful women, engages in charity on a large scale and lives on a farm in Westchester County outside New York together with lots of animals. And he solves difficult crime cases in three detective stories by author Rex Stout.

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