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He is the author of twenty six acclaimed and bestselling novels. His greatest success was the spirit 194052, a newspaper comic strip about a wisecracking, masked detective. John dunning born january 9, 1942 is an american writer of non fiction and detective fiction. The hardboiled detective in question is bernie gunther, the star of philip kerrs superb series of historical novels set in nazi germany. Golding wrote several historical novels, including.
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