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Portrait of Daniel Woodrell Foto: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (2007)

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Woodrell, Daniel

The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...

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Randolph Mason

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By using gaps in the legislation, this feared lawyer from New York often gets his clients off the hook – regardless of whether they are innocent or not. This takes place in the first two collections of short stories about him by Melville Davisson Post. In the third, and final, book however, Randolph Mason is on the side of the police, and acts as a detective. He is well built, has brown hair w...

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