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Sample of authors
Hill, Susan
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her fifty-year-long career. Hill grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire. As a child she enjoyed drama and reading. When she was sixteen, the family moved to Coventry where she attended Garr’s Hill girls’ grammar school. She went on to study at King’s College, London, graduating with a BA in Engli...
Literary figures
Bailey Ruth Raeburn
Gender: Female
Raeburn is among the more original literary detectives by virtue of being dead and buried. By heavenly authority, she is allowed to return to earth in order to correct some mistakes, above all exonerating innocent people who have been convicted of a crime, in a series of cheerful whodunits by Carolyn Hart. The fact that Raeburn is rather absent-minded and tend to forget the rules puts her in a...