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Sample of authors
Dibdin, Michael
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern Ireland in 1954 where Dibdin went to school until 1965. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Sussex, Brighton, in 1968. He then attended teachers college at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, graduating in 1969. He worked in various professions...
Literary figures
Norah Mulcahaney
Gender: Female
Young, attractive police officer in New York, who already in Lillian O’Donnell’s second book about her marries her older colleague Joe Capretto. After she has had several miscarriages, they adopt a child, but soon afterwards Norah Mulcahaney becomes a widow. She struggles on, however, and is promoted even though she breaks internal rules and in one instance even has her service weapon taken away.