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Sample of authors
Griffiths, Elly
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Domenica de Rosa. Her father is of Italian descent, her mother English. When Domenica was five years old, the family moved to Brighton, and she has lived in or just outside the city virtually all her life. She went to local schools, and in 1981 started to study at King’s Colle...
Literary figures
Violet Strange
Gender: Female
Miss Strange is a beautiful, lively, young American woman with a rich father, and who is interested in literature. She has an active social life, but on the quiet is an amateur detective who solves criminal cases she has heard about. The short stories about her by A.K. Green are rather puerile, and Strange behaves like a teenager, but she has been acknowledged as one of the first girl detectives...