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Portrait of Carol O'Connell Photo: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (1999)

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O'Connell, Carol

Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "Kathy" Mallory.
O’Connel published her first novel at the age of forty-seven and has tried to stay out of the limelight. She offers little information about her person, and not much is known about her early years. She was born in New York and grew up in New York, New Jer...

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Joe Sixsmith

Gender: Male

A private detective, living and working in Luton – which is considered a small town in Britain – where he not only gets the weirdest clients but also often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Joe Sixsmith is a former lathe operator with roots in the West Indies and who has made a new start. The unassuming and friendly problem-solver is the main character in a suite of humorous det...

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