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Cross, Amanda

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under the pen name Amanda Cross, which came to have a major influence on future women crime writers. She was born to a Jewish family in East Orange, New Jersey. The family moved to Manhattan in 1923 where Gold attended Birch Wathen School. She enrolled at Columbia University, New...

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Cesare Paul Randollph

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Methodist pastor in a rich congregation in Chicago, which gives him the possibility to live in a luxury flat (owned by the congregation) and to indulge in expensive clothes, good food and beautiful women – including his future wife, the TV star Samantha Stack. But Reverand Randollph, a former football-star in the NFL, also helps the members of his congregation, especially when a murder has been c...

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