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Portrait of Nevada Barr Photo: Oldbeeg (2006) CC BY 3.0

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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...

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Lucius Leffing

Gender: Male

He loves everything Victorian, and has furnished his house in accordance with that. Lucius Leffing is an occult amateur detective, a ‘ghost-hunter’ who combats evil and supernatural adversaries in a number of books, primarily collections of short stories. He is unobtrusive, tall and slim, with a finely-chiselled face complete with moustache. Like his creator, Joseph Payne Brenna, he lives in New H...

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