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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Forth
Hand
Hands
Really
Detection
Firearms
Sword
Pens
Literary

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