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Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her father, Tomas Roberts, was an inventor and sewing machine salesman who committed suicide in 1895, and as a result the family endured long periods of financial distress. Rinehart attended Allegheny High School, graduating in 1893. She trained as a nurse at the Homeopathic Hospital...

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Mickey Zondi

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After having worked as a servant in a white household, Mickey Zondi, who is from the Zulu people, gets a job with the police in fictive Trekkersburg in South Africa in the days of apartheid. In the books by James McClure, he becomes an assistant to the very brutal Boer , Tromp Kramer, but gradually an understanding develops between them, and they become good friends. Zondi is young, intelligent...

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