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Yorke, Margaret
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described as kind, helpful and forthcoming, but she could also be determined, sharp-tongued and single-minded, qualities that made her a highly appreciated member of various societies and associations. Margaret Nicholson was born in Compton, Surrey, as Margaret Larminie. Her parents...

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Cross, Amanda
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under the pen name Amanda Cross, which came to have a major influence on future women crime writers. She was born to a Jewish family in East Orange, New Jersey. The family moved to Manhattan in 1923 where Gold attended Birch Wathen School. She enrolled at Columbia University, New...