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Christie, Agatha
English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County. Her father, who was an American from New York, died already in 1901, and Agatha was therefore brought up by her English mother while receiving her education in the home. When sixteen, she was sent to Paris to study singing, but it soon turned out that her voice was not...
Literary figures
Mici Anhalt
Gender: Female
She has been a ballerina and worked at a prosecutor’s office, but now Mici (pronounced as ‘Mitzi’) Anhalt is employed by a department which appraises damages for victims of crime. In the books by Lillian O’Donnell, she is, however, foremost an enthusiastic amateur detective. She is beautiful, has ‘golden-red’ hair, and having grown up in the 1960s has had a varied sex life, some left-wing sympathi...