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Wells, Carolyn

Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...

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Lee Ofsted

Gender: Female

Her parents only had a low income, and Lee Ofsted joined the army at an early age. She subsequently became a golf professional, with varied success. When a murder takes place during a golf tournament, she acts the amateur detective helping police officer Graham Sheldon – who later leaves the police force and becomes her lover. She has continued to solve murders in golf settings in books by Aaron a...

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