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Sample of authors
LaPlante, Alice
American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...
Literary figures
Jessica Fletcher
Gender: Female
An elderly, former English teacher, who, after her husband Frank died, became a crime writer and an amateur detective. She has no children, but a lot of friends, some even in the police force. Jessica Fletcher was played by actress Angela Lansbury in the TV series ”Murder She Wrote”. Some of the episodes were used as base for three novels by John Anderson. After that, a number of stand-alone boo...