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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple, the Salisburys, who ran their own farm in Rhinelander, Wisconsin . She had no idea that she was adopted until she found her birth certificate at the age of 17. It was only when she was well into middle age that she attempted to track down her biological parents and...

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Carole Seddon

Gender: Female

In Simon Brett’s jolly books about the little village of Fethering in Sussex in England, we meet the quiet, sensible, former civil servant Carole Seddon. She is 50+, an everyday type of appearance, has grey hair, is retired and divorced from her husband David. She wants to live a quiet and peaceful life, but she becomes friends with her exuberant bohemian neighbour Jude Nichols and – much to her o...

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