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Portrait image of John Dickson Carr Photo: Bentley Archive/Popperfoto/Getty Images (1955)

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Carr, John Dickson

American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...

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Luther Trant

Gender: Male

Shortly after finishing his university studies, the young psychologist Luther Trant opens his own practice, not just as a psychologist but also as a private detective. He becomes very successful and is also respected by the police. He is of average height, athletically built and has thick, red hair and blue-green eyes. Unfortunately, the authors William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer only wrote one...

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