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Caspary, Vera

The American author Vera Caspary spent a great deal of time and effort writing her popular screen and stage plays, but she is best known for her crime fiction, a reputation that largely rests on the psychological thriller Laura (1943), an important classic, a major box office success in 1944 and an equally popular Broadway play in 1945. Her novels have made a comeback in the 2000s after being...

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Överkommissarie Hazlerigg

Gender: Male

Although Michael Gilbert wrote six novels and around 20 short stories about Hazlerigg, his first name is never mentioned. Very little at all is known about him, but he was born in Norfolk, started as a patrolling constable in London but was promoted and ended up in Scotland Yard. The good chief inspector is tall and heavily built, has a slightly red complexion, smokes a pipe and is not married – a...

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