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Lockridge, Frances

The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...

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This English private detective – well known in his day – is a well-built middle-aged man with blue eyes, sideburns and a friendly demeanour: he could be mistaken for a retired milkman, explains author M. McDonnell Bodkin. Paul Beck is a respected detective, and in 1909 he marries his professional colleague, Dora Myrl. Already two years later, their now adult son Paul Beck Jr. solves his first cas...

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