John Katzenbach at a book fair in Buenos Aires CC BY 2.0
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Katzenbach, John
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US attorney general. John’s father – who came from a wealthy family – served in several cities, and John was first educated at the religious Sidwell Friends School, then at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and finally at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,...
Literary figures
Maud Silver
Gender: Female
The former governess has a small pension, so she works part-time as a private detective – with success. She solves cases in a suite of whodunnits by Patricia Wentworth (pseudonym for Doris Amy Dillon Turnbull). Miss Maud Silver is a determined lady with a sharp tongue who can quickly deal with pompous men. She has mouse-brown hair with a bit of grey, smooth skin, neat facial features, is a s...