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Sample of authors
Hoag, Tami
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...
Literary figures
Dora Myrl
Gender: Female
One of the first female private detectives in English crime fiction, a delicate, jolly young lady who looks like a schoolgirl. She tries everything new: already in 1900 she is a seasoned cyclist. Dora Myrl is also such a clever detective that the famous Paul Beck marries her in 1909, and two years later their creator M. McDonnell Bodkin lets the couple’s adult (!) son solve his first case.