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Leon, Donna
The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful...
Literary figures
MacDougal Duff
Gender: Male
Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...