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Piglia, Ricardo

Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...

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Steven Mitchell

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He is a ‘typical’ Scotland Yard chief inspector: of average height, with an everyday and friendly countenance, and he likes to wear a mackintosh and a bowler hat. He is also a thorough investigator who appreciates work discipline and routine work. He cooperates with amateur detectives, but it is often Steven Mitchell who arrives at the correct solutions in the books that Josephine Bell has wri...

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