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Cross, Amanda

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under the pen name Amanda Cross, which came to have a major influence on future women crime writers. She was born to a Jewish family in East Orange, New Jersey. The family moved to Manhattan in 1923 where Gold attended Birch Wathen School. She enrolled at Columbia University, New...

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Pete Schofield

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A reasonably tough private detective in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. He is just over 30 years old, tall and well-built, very handsome, is extremely charming and – according to author Thomas B. Dewey – easily gets women to fall for him. But Pete Schofield is married and faithful to his wife, the temperamental, beautiful and red-haired Jeannie, who (partly against his will) helps him to solve t...

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