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Clark, Mary Higgins

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...

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Kent Murdock

Gender: Male

Photographer, amateur detective and former war hero, who, according to author George Harmon Coxe, advanced to become a very well-paid picture director at a major daily newspaper. The cosmopolitan Kent Murdock is tall and attractive with a charming smile, and moves as freely in luxury restaurants as in seedy bars. He lives in a luxurious apartment with his intelligent and beautiful wife Joyce.

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