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Sample of authors
Parker, T. Jefferson
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the city of Tustin where the family moved in 1959. The "T" does not stand for anything; his mother just thought it would "look good on the presidential letterhead". The family often spent their holidays in Mexico, a country he keeps returning to again and again.
Parker has always...
Literary figures
Mary Russell
Gender: Female
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...