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Grafton, Sue

Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren Grafton, was a lawyer and author, and her mother a high school chemistry teacher. C.W. Grafton was the author of four novels, three detective stories and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1950), a courtroom novel and minor classic.
Both Grafton’s parents developed a drinking p...

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Quincy Durant

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As a young boy, he met ‘Artie’ Wu in a children’s home, and when they were in their early teens, they ran away together from this. Now they run the company WuDu Ltd. (speciality: frauds and dangerous missions). Quincy Durant is very tall, very thin, rarely gets his hair cut and is always nervous. His skin has a slightly brown tint to it, which makes him look as if he always has a suntan, accor...

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