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Uhnak, Dorothy
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the Bronx, New York, where she lived all her life. Her father was a projectionist who occasionally cooperated with the police when they needed to consult a movie expert. His daughter became fascinated with police procedure and soon became a fixture at the local precinct where she...
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...