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Grafton, Sue
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren Grafton, was a lawyer and author, and her mother a high school chemistry teacher. C.W. Grafton was the author of four novels, three detective stories and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1950), a courtroom novel and minor classic.
Both Grafton’s parents developed a drinking p...
Literary figures
Pierre Chambrun
Gender: Male
He was born in France and was active in the resistance during the Second World War; now he runs the luxury Beaumont Hotel in New York. Pierre Chambrun is a short bachelor with a square-set body and dark eyes. He demands that everything at the hotel should work perfectly and must for that reason himself solve the crimes that to his horror take place there in the books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym...