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Sample of authors
Elkins, Aaron
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College, Manhattan (BA 1956), Madison University of Arizona, Tucson (MA 1960), and received a doctorate in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. He has also taught at universities, primarily in California, but also in Heidelberg, Germany, between 1976 and...
Literary figures
Mary Russell
Gender: Female
When she is 15 years old, the American theology student Mary Russell, born in 1900, becomes an apprentice to no other than Sherlock Holmes himself. Besides which, she eventually marries him, and with his assistance solves a row of mysterious cases. The independent, smart and pretty young lady’s adventures are told by Laurie R. King in a suite of novels, which are presented as being Russell’s mem...