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Temple, Peter

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...

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Portrait image of Peter Van Greenaway

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Van Greenaway, Peter

Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science fiction. He was extremely shy, and little is known about his life. Allegedly, he only gave two interviews in the last 25 years of his life, both with Swedish crime fiction aficionados Jan Broberg and Ulf Örnklo.
No birth or death certificates have ever been found, so there is ...

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