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Portrait of Peter May Photo: Guillem Lopez / Camera Press / TT (2016)

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May, Peter

Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a conflict...

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Jakob Studer

Gender: Male

Perhaps the most famous problem solver in German-language crime fiction is Wachtmeister (approx: sergeant) Jakob Studer, a single elderly gentleman, overweight, with a pale, gaunt face and a heavy moustache. He was created by Swiss-Austrian Friedrich Glauser, is mainly active in the countryside and in small towns and solves his cases with the help of intuition and human knowledge.

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