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Clark, Mary Higgins

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...

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Alix London

Gender: Female

Her world fell apart when her father, an internationally renowned art expert, was jailed for fraud. The young Alix recovered, trained as a curator and made herself a career in Seattle while she got back into contact with her father. She is now solving art crime with the help of him and the FBI in a series of novels by the husband and wife team Aaron and Charlotte Elkins.

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