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Goodwin, Jason

Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author and estate agent John Michell, were briefly involved in a relationship that broke up before their son was born. Jason was adopted by his mother’s husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, but when Jason was three years old, his mother left her husband for a younger m...

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Mary Russell

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When she is 15 years old, the American theology student Mary Russell, born in 1900, becomes an apprentice to no other than Sherlock Holmes himself. Besides which, she eventually marries him, and with his assistance solves a row of mysterious cases. The independent, smart and pretty young lady’s adventures are told by Laurie R. King in a suite of novels, which are presented as being Russell’s mem...

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