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Portrait image of Mary Lewis Photo: Roger Tillberg / TT (1983)

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Lewis, Mary

Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and children’s books authors of the second half of the 20th century, but she had a reputation for unpredictability. In the 1950s, for example, she suddenly took a ten-year break from writing crime novels in order to focus on short stories and children’s books.
Mary Milne was born in...

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Dolly Rawlins

Gender: Female

Her husband, Harry, was a successful leader for a gang of robbers, who according to the police were wiped out in a failed robbery. Dolly Rawlins, middle-aged, elegant, with sand-coloured hair and a lovely figure, took over his activities together with the other widows of the gang members. Together, they carry out successful robberies in books (and TV-series) by Lynda La Plante, but things don’t a...

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