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Portrait of Elizabeth Haynes Photo: Eyevine/TT (2012)

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Haynes, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...

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Peter Duluth

Gender: Male

When his wife, Magdalena, dies in a fire, he starts drinking, becomes an alcoholic and ends up in a mental hospital. There, the young blond theatre agent Peter Duluth meets actress Iris Pattison, who is being treated for a depression. They get married after a while, and solve a number of murder cases, often in theatre settings, which have been described by Patrick Quentin (pseudonym for Richard...

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