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Portrait image of Jane Harper Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2017)

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Harper, Jane

Jane Harper was born in Manchester, England. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to Australia. For six years, she lived in Boronia, Victoria, and during this period she became an Australian citizen. She returned to the UK aged 14 with her family and lived for a while in Hampshire before taking a degree in literature and history at the University of Kent. She then embarked on a...

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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.

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