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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
Suzie (Susannah) Mountford
Gender: Female
Shortly after becoming a police officer, Susannah ‘Suzie’ Mountford – because of a shortage of staff during the war – had to investigate a murder case. She managed it well, and also became the secret lover of her boss, Chief Inspector Tommy Livermore. She is described by her creator, John Gardner, as tall and slim, with brown hair and green eyes. Her father died in an accident when she was a teena...