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Portrait of Lois Duncan Photo: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage (2009)

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Duncan, Lois

Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan, both of them well-known photographers. The family moved to Sarasota, Florida, where Lois grew up and graduated from high school in 1952. By that time, she was already an established writer who published her work in magazines. She began to write when she was ten, and she...

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Tony Mendez

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Newly graduated from an FBI school, the young Tony Mendez is employed as sheriff in the little town of Oak Knoll in California. He has a number of murder cases to solve, and he makes enthusiastic use of the modern investigative methods he has learnt. The job is harder than Tony Mendez thought, but luckily he is given some help by a former teacher, Vince Leone, and Vince’s wife, lawyer Anne, in t...

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