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Sample of authors
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...
Literary figures
Richard Thornhill
Gender: Male
An experienced police detective who works in the fictive town of Lydmouth in the middle of the last century. He is married to Edith and they have two children, but he is not really happy with either the town or the marriage. When Richard Thornhill meets journalist Jill Francis, they start a relationship, at the same time that they – each on their own, but sometimes together – investigate a ser...