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McDermid, Val

Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...

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Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen

Gender: Male

The internationally renowned scientist and genius is known as the “Thinking Machine”. Readers of mystery novels know him from the stories of Jacques Futrelle. Professor Van Dusen has an abnormally large head, little patience and is a stickler for facts. As a result, he is able to even break out of the high security Cell 13 …

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