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Portrait of Lois Duncan Photo: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage (2009)

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Duncan, Lois

Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan, both of them well-known photographers. The family moved to Sarasota, Florida, where Lois grew up and graduated from high school in 1952. By that time, she was already an established writer who published her work in magazines. She began to write when she was ten, and she...

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Joseph French

Gender: Male

With patience, thorough and determined routine work, Detective Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard has broken a long row of false alibis and exposed a similarly long row of murderers. He is short in stature, well-built, likes to wear tweeds and is a typical English gentleman. He spends his free time with his wife (they don’t have any children) and likes to potter – like his creator F. Wills C...

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