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Sample of authors
Stout, Rex
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout who were both Quakers. When he was only a few months old, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. As a child, Stout was good at mathematics and languages and he was later admitted to the University of Kansas at Lawrence, but his family could not afford to pay...
Literary figures
Sarah Keate
Gender: Female
Young, intelligent nurse who works at a hospital as well as privately. She is careful and conscientious, and soon discovers that something is wrong – which it always is in the novels by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sarah Keate is a fairly good amateur detective, but to solve cases she is often assisted by the investigations carried out by police officer Lance O’Leary – but they don’t work together.