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Sample of authors
Carr, John Dickson
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who possessed a comprehensive collection of detective stories, so John Dickson Carr read books by authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton from an early age. He soon decided he wanted to write his own stories, and made some of his first attempts while he...
Literary figures
Lorraine Page
Gender: Female
Police officer in Los Angeles who breaks down when a colleague is killed. Lorraine Page starts to drink, is dismissed from the force, her husband leaves her, she loses custody of her daughters and becomes homeless. After having been involved in the hunt for a serial murderer, she does, however, manage to make her way back, stops drinking and becomes a successful private detective. According to...