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Barr, Nevada
Nevada Barr is an author and artist born in Yerington, Nevada. In 1954, she moved with her family to Susanville in California where she grew up. Her parents ran a small airfield – both her parents as well as her sister were pilots – and Nevada Barr passed her flying certificate as a teenager. She attended Mercy High School at Red Bluff until 1969, and California Polytechnic State University in San...
Literary figures
Tecumseh Fox
Gender: Male
His full name is William Tecumseh Sherman Fox, but his friends simply call him ‘Tec’. He is a private detective with his own firm, well-off, likes to socialise with beautiful women, engages in charity on a large scale and lives on a farm in Westchester County outside New York together with lots of animals. And he solves difficult crime cases in three detective stories by author Rex Stout.