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Pollock, Donald Ray

The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...

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Jessica Fletcher

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An elderly, former English teacher, who, after her husband Frank died, became a crime writer and an amateur detective. She has no children, but a lot of friends, some even in the police force. Jessica Fletcher was played by actress Angela Lansbury in the TV series ”Murder She Wrote”. Some of the episodes were used as base for three novels by John Anderson. After that, a number of stand-alone boo...

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