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Pattison, Eliot

The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father; his mother was a bank official. As a child, he devoured books and often disappeared into the forest to read. An aunt who was a librarian in the American army used to supply him with literature from the various countries where she was stationed. Pattison himself says that the...

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Mici Anhalt

Gender: Female

She has been a ballerina and worked at a prosecutor’s office, but now Mici (pronounced as ‘Mitzi’) Anhalt is employed by a department which appraises damages for victims of crime. In the books by Lillian O’Donnell, she is, however, foremost an enthusiastic amateur detective. She is beautiful, has ‘golden-red’ hair, and having grown up in the 1960s has had a varied sex life, some left-wing sympathi...

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