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Sample of authors
Grimes, Martha
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when she was six years old and she and her brother grew up with their mother, a busy businesswoman who managed the Mountain Lake Hotel in West Maryland. After leaving high school she attended the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating with a BA in English in 1954 and an...
Literary figures
Merlini
Gender: Male
His first name is never mentioned, but as a stage magician he is known as The Great Merlini. He is a former circus artiste, but when we meet him in Clayton Rawson’s detective story, Merlini is running a store for magic supplies in Times Square in New York and solving inexplicable murders – so-called impossible crimes. He doesn’t like the subway, beer, opera, golf and sleep, but loves surfing, tabl...