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Portrait image of Simon Beckett Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Beckett, Simon

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...

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Alvirah Meehan

Gender: Female

Meehan is a cleaner who wins 40 million dollars on the lottery, which allows her to work as an amateur detective. Alvirah is the protagonist in a string of novels by Mary Higgins Clark, some written in collaboration with her daughter Carol. All the stories are set around Christmas and feature her other protagonist, Regan Reilly.

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