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Du Maurier, Daphne
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her grandfather was an author and caricaturist for Punch. Daphne du Maurier attended public schools in London and Paris and began to write at an early age, her first novel The Loving Spirit came in 1931. The following year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, later promoted to...
Literary figures
Mordecai Tremaine
Gender: Male
His full name is the grandiose Mordecai Euripides Tremaine, but he himself is a warm-hearted, retired tobacconist and amateur criminologist in London who spends his time reading romantic novels and solving crimes. He stumbles across murders or is drawn into cases by his good friend Jonathan Boyce of Scotland Yard. Francis Duncan (pseudonym for William Underhill) has written five novels about him.