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Sample of authors
Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three years old he moved with his parents to New York where they came to own several candy stores/newsagents. Asimov studied at Columbia University, New York, and took his doctor's degree in chemistry in 1948. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the American Air Force experimental...
Literary figures
Hilda Adams
Gender: Female
She is a young, attractive and also well-educated and experienced nurse, and her friend Detective Inspector Patton calls her ‘Miss Pinkerton’. Hilda Adams looks after wealthy patients in their homes, and she gets an infallible feeling when something is wrong – and thanks to her own investigations she can give the police decisive clues. Mary Roberts Rinehart has written two novels about her.