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Sample of authors
MacInnes, Helen
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where she attended the Hermitage School and the Glasgow High School for Girls before enrolling at the University of Glasgow in 1925, graduating with an MA in German and French in 1928. She then worked in libraries and schools around Glasgow and Dunbartonshire. She received a...
Literary figures
Jessica Fletcher
Gender: Female
An elderly, former English teacher, who, after her husband Frank died, became a crime writer and an amateur detective. She has no children, but a lot of friends, some even in the police force. Jessica Fletcher was played by actress Angela Lansbury in the TV series ”Murder She Wrote”. Some of the episodes were used as base for three novels by John Anderson. After that, a number of stand-alone boo...