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Abbott, Megan
The American scholar and author Megan Abbott was born in Detroit and raised there and at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan and graduated with a Ph.D. in literature from New York University. She then taught there and at State University of New York, New School University, New York and the University of Mississippi. Abbott has contributed to a number of newspapers...
Literary figures
C.D. Sloan
Gender: Male
An esteemed Chief Inspector has many names – not least when it comes to Christopher Dennis Sloan in the books by Catherine Aird. For colleagues and the public (and readers) he is known as C.D., for relatives and friends as ‘Seedy’. He is of early middle age, works in the fictional county of West Calleshire in England, where he was also born, and is married to Margaret who – in the middle of a murd...