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Christie, Agatha

English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County. Her father, who was an American from New York, died already in 1901, and Agatha was therefore brought up by her English mother while receiving her education in the home. When sixteen, she was sent to Paris to study singing, but it soon turned out that her voice was not...

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Dolly Rawlins

Gender: Female

Her husband, Harry, was a successful leader for a gang of robbers, who according to the police were wiped out in a failed robbery. Dolly Rawlins, middle-aged, elegant, with sand-coloured hair and a lovely figure, took over his activities together with the other widows of the gang members. Together, they carry out successful robberies in books (and TV-series) by Lynda La Plante, but things don’t a...

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