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Dunant, Sarah
The writer, broadcaster and critic Sarah Dunant was born in London. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School and Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with a first in history in 1973. She was also involved in theatre while at Cambridge. She was a radio producer at the BBC between 1974 and 1976. As of 1977 she is a freelance journalist and author. She has travelled extensively, primarily in...
Literary figures
Bertha Cool
Gender: Female
Cool is a sturdy woman in her sixties who runs a private detective agency on the fringes of the law. She is a hardboiled lady who smokes, drinks and swears, so she caused some attention when the books about her were launched in the 1930s by A. A. Fair (a pen name used by Erle Stanley Gardner). Her trusted helper is a wiry, sly lawyer called Donald Lam.