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Sample of authors
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple, the Salisburys, who ran their own farm in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. She had no idea that she was adopted until she found her birth certificate at the age of 17. It was only when she was well into middle age that she attempted to track down her biological parents and discovered...
Literary figures
Jack Finch
Gender: Male
A taciturn, patient detective chief inspector in English Essex who solves his cases with the help of his knowledge of human nature, psychological insight and thorough police work in a suite of novels by June Thomson. Jack Finch – in the USA re-named as Jack Rudd – is unmarried and lives together with his sister. He finds it hard to have contact with women, often feels lonely and has a lot of sym...