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Christie, Agatha

English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County. Her father, who was an American from New York, died already in 1901, and Agatha was therefore brought up by her English mother while receiving her education in the home. When sixteen, she was sent to Paris to study singing, but it soon turned out that her voice was not...

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Bo (Barbara) Bradley

Gender: Female

With the mano-depressive legally-trained investigator Barbara ‘Bo’ Bradley in San Diego, author Abigail Padgett created one of the weirder detectives in literature. His good deeds include supporting children who have been badly treated. He is handsome, has red hair and green eyes, but struggles with the fact that he is beginning to be overweight and the memory of when his sister, Laurie, com...

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