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Grimes, Martha
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when she was six years old and she and her brother grew up with their mother, a busy businesswoman who managed the Mountain Lake Hotel in West Maryland. After leaving high school she attended the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating with a BA in English in 1954 and an...
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McDermid, Val
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
