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Allingham, Margery
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane Hughes. Both parents were writers and journalists who regularly contributed to various weekly magazines. Herbert John was the editor of the New London Journal as well as the Christian Globe.
Margery Allingham grew up in Essex as the oldest of three children. She was...
Literary figures
Gwenn Ramadge
Gender: Female
Attractive and intelligent, 32-year-old Gwenn Ramadge has a robust and secure background growing up in a middle-class family, but she decides to become a private detective. She starts the Hart Security and Investigations agency in Manhattan and (in novels by Lillian O’Donnell) she solves murder cases with predominantly female victims. She is helped by male police officers, who even become her b...