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Yorke, Margaret

Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described as kind, helpful and forthcoming, but she could also be determined, sharp-tongued and single-minded, qualities that made her a highly appreciated member of various societies and associations. Margaret Nicholson was born in Compton, Surrey, as Margaret Larminie. Her parents...

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Philip Marlowe

Gender: Male

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe is the archetype of the hardboiled American private eye. Many subsequent authors of crime fiction have found inspiration in the lonesome, brooding detective. Marlowe is a former investigator at the district attorney’s office of Los Angeles County, he is well read, interested in social issues, and he moves as effortlessly in the upper echelons of society as in bac...

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