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Portrait image of Doris Gercke Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Gercke, Doris

Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working class family that fled to Hamburg in 1949. She still lives there. Not having the means to attend university, she worked as an administrator and was married in 1957 when she was twenty years old. In 1959, after the birth of her second child, she gave up work and became a...

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Portrait of Joseph Wambaugh Foto: Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (2006)

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Wambaugh, Joseph

Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is an American author and former detective sergeant. He is best known for his police procedural novels in which he skilfully combines fact and fiction. Most of his books are based on more or less real cases as well as his own experience as a police officer and detective. Wambaugh has also published best-selling non-fiction books about murder investigations, many of...

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