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Clark, Mary Higgins

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...

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Margaret Campbell

Gender: Female

American forensic pathologist, whose background includes a messy private life, but who is known internationally in her profession. Margaret Campbell thus often cooperates with the police, for example in China, where she meets the young detective inspector Li Yan. They get on well professionally, and despite private disagreements they have a son, Li Jon, who grows up with his mother in the USA,...

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