![]() ![]() We know a little of his background but there is some mystery surrounding his father and the circumstances of his arrival into England that hasn’t been explored, just hinted at. Straay is a child of the First World War. I listed habits along with psychological and physical problems. Using Doctor Watson’s method, I wrote a list of the traits I admired most in those characters, good or bad, and wove them into his make-up. Auguste Dupin” also contributed to the character development, as Poirot and Holmes were both, in my opinion, heavily influenced by Dupin also. Rodney David Wingfield’s “Jack Frost”, Edgar Allen Poe’s “Le Chevalier C. So I went straight to Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for my primary inspiration.ĭoctor Pieter Straay’s personality is developed from an amalgam of the best qualities I found in Christie’s “Hercule Poirot”, Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes”. ![]() I have always been a mystery fan and whilst I’ve read and watched a significant amount, I decided I’d begin with mystery-genre royalty. When I was developing Sir Laurence Dies, I decided early on I needed a quirky detective because I believe those characters, with their own flaws and issues, stand above the average and are remembered for not just their brilliance, but their eccentricity too. ![]() Who or what inspires you in the development of your main character in your book Sir Laurence Dies? ![]()
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