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Academics
Teachers, Professors, etc. |
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| Cathy Ace |
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Cait Morgan: Welsh-Canadian professor and criminologist, based in British Columbia, Canada, and traveling here and there |
| Eric Ambler |
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Charles Latimer: British
university lecturer turned detective novelist, in Turkey |
| Christine Andreae |
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Lee Squires:
English professor and poet in Montana |
| Charlotte Armstrong |
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MacDougal Duff:
retired history professor in New York City |
| Mignon F. Ballard |
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Miss Dimple
Kilpatrick: a longtime first-grade teacher during World War
II, in Elderberry, Georgia |
| Maggie Barbieri |
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Alison Bergeron: newly divorced English professor at St. Thomas, a small Catholic college in the Bronx, New York City |
| George Baxt |
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Sylvia Plotkin: author
and teacher, and Max Van Larsen, a police detective, in New York
City |
| Sophie Belfort |
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Molly Rafferty:
history professor at Scattergood College, and Nick
Hannibal, a homicide detective, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Laurien Berenson |
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Melanie Travis:
special education teacher who shows her standard
poodles in dog shows, in Connecticut |
| J.M.C. Blair |
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Merlin: scholar, doctor,
and advisor to King Arthur of legendary medieval Britain, in the
Merlin Investigations |
| Al Blanchard |
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Steve Asher: middle-school
teacher, in Massachusetts |
| J.S. Borthwick |
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Sarah Deane: graduate
student, and Alex McKenzie, a doctor in Maine |
| Gail Bowen |
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Joanne Kilbourn: political
science professor in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Michael Bowen |
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Melissa Pennyworth:
graduate student in Literature, and Rep Pennyworth, a trademark
and copyright lawyer, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
| James Bradberry |
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Jamie Ramsgill:
architect and Princeton professor, in New Jersey |
| Leo Bruce |
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Carolus Deene: ex-commando
turned schoolmaster, in England |
| Lillian Stewart Carl |
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Michael Campbell: Scottish professor, and Rebecca Reid, a historian,
in Ohio and later in Scotland |
| P.M. Carlson |
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Maggie Ryan: statistician
and professor, in New York City |
| Jennifer Lee Carrell |
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Kate Stanley:
an academic sleuth, directing Shakespeare at the rebuilt Globe Theatre
in London, England, and elsewhere |
| Charlotte Carter |
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Cassandra Lisle:
college student in late-1960s Chicago, Illinois, in the Cook County
mysteries |
| Sarah Caudwell |
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Hilary Tamar: medieval
law professor in Oxford, England |
| Erika Chase |
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Lizzie Turner: tutor and literacy teacher, returning to her old home town, Ashton Corners, Alabama, in the Ashton Corners Book Club mysteries |
| Anna Clarke |
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Paula Glenning: professor
and writer, in London, England |
| Melissa Cleary |
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Jackie Walsh: professor
of film studies, and her ex-police dog, Jake, in Palmer, Ohio |
| V.C. Clinton-Baddeley |
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Dr. R.V. Davie:
of St. Nicholas College, Cambridge, England |
| Carolyn Coker |
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Andrea Perkins:
art historian and restorer in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Alan Cook |
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Lillian Morgan: retired math professor in a retirement community
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Bob Cook |
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Michael Wyman: 50-something
philosophy professor and MI-6 agent, based in London, England |
| Desmond Cory |
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John Dobie: Professor
of Mathematics in Cardiff, Wales |
| Rebecca Cramer |
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Linda Bluenight:
anthropologist and 4th-grade teacher, in and around Tucson, Arizona |
| Bill Crider |
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Carl Burns: college
professor in Texas |
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Dr. Sally Good:
head of the English and Fine Arts departments at Hughes Community
College in Texas |
| Edmund Crispin |
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Gervase Fen: professor
of English in Oxford, England |
| Amanda Cross |
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FKate
Fansler: university English professor in New York City |
| Judith Cutler |
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Sophie Rivers: college
lecturer and amateur singer in Birmingham, England |
| Jeanne M. Dams |
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Dorothy Martin:
American schoolteacher retired in England |
| Robertson Davies |
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Sir Francis Cornish and
other academics at the College of St. John and the Holy Ghost, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Cornish Trilogy |
| Nageeba Davis |
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Maggie Kean: art
teacher and sculptor in the high country of Colorado |
| Marlis Day |
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Margo Brown: language
arts teacher in rural Indiana |
| S.F.X. Dean |
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Neil Kelly: professor of English at a New England college |
| William DeAndrea |
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Niccolo Benedetti: world-renowned criminologist professor in
Sparta, New York |
| Lillian De La Torre |
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Dr. Sam. Johnson: real-life 18th-century lexicographer and sage,
in London, England |
| Thomas B. Dewey |
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Singer Batts: Shakespearean scholar running a hotel in a small town in Ohio |
| Joanne Dobson |
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Karen Pelletier:
English professor in Enfield, Massachusetts |
| John Donohue |
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Connor Burke: university
professor and martial-arts student, in New York City |
| Ann Dukthas (Paul Doherty) |
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Nicholas Segalla:
time-traveling scholar in England |
| Jan Dunlap |
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Bob White: expert birder
and counselor at Savage High School, near the Twin Cities in Minnesota,
in the Birder Murder mysteries |
| Martin Edwards |
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Daniel Kind:
retired Oxford historian, and Detective Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett of the Cold Case Squad, in the Lake District of England |
| Anthony Eglin |
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Lawrence Kingston:
retired botany professor in England, in the English Garden mysteries |
| Aaron Elkins |
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Gideon Oliver:
anthropology professor in Port Angeles, Washington |
| Mary Anna Evans |
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Faye Longchamp:
black archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market
on her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast |
| Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily |
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Ariel Quigley: college English teacher with psychic powers, in
Alexandria, Virginia |
| Kate Clark Flora |
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Thea Kozak: educational
consultant in Massachusetts |
| Shelley Freydont |
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Katie McDonald: mathematician
and Sudoku whiz who returns to her hometown of Granville, New Hampshire |
| Linda French |
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Teddy Morelli: college
history professor in Seattle Washington |
| Timothy Fuller |
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Jupiter Jones:
Harvard fine arts instructor and amateur sleuth, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Anne George |
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Patricia Anne “Mouse” Hollowell: retired English
teacher, and Mary Alice “Sister” Crane, who out-lived
three husbands, in Alabama, in the Southern Sisters mysteries |
| Kat Goldring |
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Willi Gallagher:
part-time English teacher, looking into her American
Indian background, and Quannah Lassiter, a Lakota-speaking special
investigator for the Texas Rangers, in Nickleberry, Texas |
| Paula Gosling |
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Kate Trevorne: English
professor, and Jack Stryker, a homicide cop, in Michigan |
| Barbara Hambly |
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James Asher:
professor and one-time spy, in London, England |
| Janice Hamrick |
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Jocelyn Shore: a high school teacher from Austin, Texas |
| Jonathan Harrington |
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Danny O’Flaherty:
American teacher researching his family’s
roots in Ireland, and in New York City |
| Tim Heald |
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Tudor Cornwall: Reader
in Criminal Studies at the University of Wessex, in England |
| Tim Hemlin |
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Neil Marshall: graduate
student in creative writing, struggling poet, and part-time chef
and caterer, in Houston, Texas |
| Teri Holbrook |
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Gale Grayson: American
expatriate historian in England |
| Anne Holt |
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Johanne Vik: Oslo University
psychology professor and former FBI profiler, and Adam Stubø,
a detective inspector, in Oslo, Norway |
| Wendy Hornsby |
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Kate Teague: history
teacher in California |
| Maria Hudgins |
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Dotsy Lamb:
recently divorced ancient and medieval history professor
from Virginia, traveling in Europe with her friend Lettie |
| Mary Ellen Hughes |
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Maggie Olenski:
young high school math teacher in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Jane Isenberg |
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Bel Barrett: professor
of English in Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Marshall Jevons |
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Henry Spearman:
economics professor at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
| D.J.H. Jones |
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Nancy Cook: Chaucer
scholar and professor at Yale University |
| Merry Jones |
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Harper Jennings: Iraq
war veteran with PTSD, now a teaching assistant at Cornell University,
in New York |
| Jennifer Jordan |
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Barry Vaughan:
history lecturer and spoofy crime writer, and Dee
Vaughan, an office temp wife, in Woodfield, England |
| Nora Kelly |
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Gillian Adams: college
history department chair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Susan Kelly |
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Liz Connors: former
English professor and freelance crime writer, in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Rebecca Kent (Kate Kingsbury) |
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Meredith Llewellyn:
headmistress of Bellehaven House, a finishing school in the Cotswolds,
and her two cohorts, no-nonsense Felicity Cross and timid ex-socialite
Esmerelda Pickard, in Edwardian England |
| Diana Killian |
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Grace Hollister:
American schoolteacher and literary scholar visiting
her favorite poets’ old haunts in England’s Lake District,
in the Poetic Death mysteries |
| Laurie R. King |
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Mary Russell:
student and then wife of Sherlock Holmes; theology scholar |
| Jane Langton |
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Homer Kelly: lawyer
and former police lieutenant, now a Harvard professor, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
| Janet LaPierre |
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Meg Halloran: teacher, and her husband, police chief Vince Gutierrez,
or Patience and Verity Mackellar, mother and daughter private investigators,
and others, in the Port Silva (California) mysteries |
| José Latour |
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Elliot Steil: son of an American sugar magnate, later a professor
of English at a Cuban college and then working in an import-export
business, in Havana, Cuba |
| John Le Carré |
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George Smiley:
British Intelligence agent and scholar, based in
London, England |
| Marie Lee |
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Marguerite Smith: retired
science teacher in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| T.J. MacGregor |
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Nora McKee:
a college professor, and librarian Alex Kincaid, fighting
shadowy government agents using time travel |
| Shona MacLean |
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Alexander Seaton:
schoolmaster in 1620s Banff and Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Charlotte MacLeod |
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Peter Shandy:
college botany professor, and Helen Marsh Shandy,
a librarian, in Balaclava County, Massachusetts |
| Ada Madison (Camille Minichino) |
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Sophie Knowles:
math professor at Henley College, in Massachusetts |
| Hannah March (Tim Wilson) |
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Robert Fairfax:
private tutor in the 1760s in and around London, England |
| Sharyn McCrumb |
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Jay Omega:
college professor and science-fiction author |
| Ralph M. McInerny |
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Roger
Knight: philosophy professor in
South Bend, Indiana, and his brother Philip
Knight,a New York PI, in the Notre Dame mysteries |
| Frances McNamara |
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Emily Cabot: one
of the first female graduate students, in sociology in the 1890s
at the University of Chicago, Illinois |
| Tom Mitcheltree |
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Paul Fischer: college professor in Oregon and Maine |
| Ian Morson |
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William Falconer: 13th
century university regent master in Oxford, England |
| Donna Huston Murray |
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Ginger Barnes:
headmaster’s wife and suburban mother in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
| Jake Needham |
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Jack Shepherd: American ex-patriot lawyer, whose wife left him for a proctologist, now teaching in a business school in Bangkok, Thailand |
| Francis M. Nevins |
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Loren Mensing:
law-school professor in St. Louis, Missouri |
| Charles O’Brien |
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Anne Cartier:
ex-vaudeville actress, then a tutor for deaf children,
in England and France on the eve of the French Revolution |
| Tim O’Mara |
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Raymond Donne: former NYPD detective, now a teacher in his old precinct, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York |
| Milton K. Ozaki |
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Androcles Caldwell:
psychology professor at North University, his “Watson,” Bendy
Brinks, and Lt. Percy Phelan, a homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Stuart Palmer |
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Hildegarde Withers:
schoolma’am in New York, later retired
to Los Angeles, California |
| Bernadette Pajer |
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Benjamin Bradshaw: electrical engineering professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in the early 1900s |
| Ellen Pall |
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Juliet Bodine: successful
writer of Regency novels and ex-professor of English literature at
Barnard in New York City |
| Leigh Perry (Toni L.P. Kelner) |
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Georgia Thackery: English professor who moves back into her parents’ house with her teenaged daughter and discovers a skeleton named Sid already in residence, in the Family Skeleton mysteries |
| Elizabeth Peters |
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Vicky Bliss:
American art historian in Bavaria, Germany |
| Audrey Peterson |
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Claire Camden:
California English professor in London, England |
| Christine Poulson |
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Cassandra James: professor and administrator at St. Etheldreda’s
College, in Cambridge, England, in the Cambridge mysteries |
| Lev Raphael |
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Nick Hoffman: gay
professor in Michiganapolis, Michigan |
| Dilwyn Rees (Glyn Daniel) |
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Sir Richard Cherrington:
archaeologist and Vice President of Fisher College, in Cambridge,
England |
| Matt Beynon Rees |
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Omar Yussef Sihran:
50-ish schoolteacher in a Palestinian refugee camp, living in Bethlehem,
Palestinian Authority |
| Robert Reeves |
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Thomas Theron: history
professor in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Herbert Resnicow |
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Isabel
Macintosh:
faculty dean, and Giles Sullivan, a retired attorney, in
Vermont, in the Crossword Puzzle mysteries |
| Gillian Roberts |
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Amanda Pepper:
high school teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Samuel Rogers |
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Paul Hatfield: chemistry professor and amateur ornithologist,
in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the midwest |
| David Russell |
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Winston Patrick: lawyer turned teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Sarah R. Shaber |
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Simon Shaw: professor
of history in Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Catherine Shaw |
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Vanessa Duncan:
schoolteacher in late 19th century Cambridge, England |
| Carole B. Shmurak |
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Susan Lombardi:
professor at a university in Connecticut |
| Clea Simon |
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Dulcie Schwartz:
Harvard doctoral candidate living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
the ghost of her cat Mr. Grey |
| Shelley Singer |
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Barrett Lake: history
teacher in Berkeley, California |
| Edith Skom |
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Beth Austin: English
professor at Midwestern University in Illinois |
| Josef Škvorecký |
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Danny Smiricki:
jazz saxophone player, teacher, and observer of post-WW2 life in
Czechoslovakia and Canada |
| Michelle Spring |
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Laura Principal:
academic turned private investigator in Cambridge,
England |
| T.S. Stribling |
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Henry Poggioli: psychology
professor and criminologist at Ohio State University, traveling to
the Caribbean and elsewhere |
| Betsy Struthers |
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Rosalie Cairns:
bookstore clerk turned academic, in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
| Virginia Swift |
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“Mustang” Sally
Adler: hard-drinking singer who comes home after 17 years
as a scholar of women’s studies at the University of Wyoming |
| Jon Talton |
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David Mapstone: ex-cop,
now unemployed college history teacher back in law enforcement, in
Phoenix, Arizona |
| Andrew Taylor |
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William
Dougal: post-grad student and security firm
employee, in England |
| Sarah Stewart Taylor |
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Sweeney St. George:
art history professor specializing in representations
of death, in Byzantium, Vermont |
| Scarlett Thomas |
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Lily Pascale:
ex-teacher, ex-bartender, and ex-actress, now a professor
of creative writing in Devon, England |
| Pamela Thomas-Graham |
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Nikki Chase:
black economics professor in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
in the Ivy League mysteries |
| Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor) |
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Leonidas Witherall:
retired academic and secret pulp fiction author,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Lawrence Treat |
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Carl Wayward: professor of psychology, based in New York |
| M.J. Trow |
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Peter Maxwell:
widowed teacher and golden-hearted cynic, in England |
| Margaret Truman |
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Mackenzie Smith:
law professor and Annabel Reed, a gallery owner,
in Washington, DC |
| Ann Waldron |
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McLeod Delaney: Pulitzer-Prize-winning
journalist from Florida, who comes to Princeton University as a visiting
lecturer, later professor, in Princeton, New Jersey |
| Haley Walsh (Jeri Westerson) |
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Skyler Foxe: a gay high school English teacher in Redlands, California, in a romantic mystery series |
| H.O. Ward |
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Aramus P. Limpkin: professor of history at a college in Georgia,
and Dr.
Galimatias, a semi-retired physician based in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Theodora Wender |
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Glad Gold: English
professor, and Alden Chase, a chief of police, in Wading River, Massachusetts |
| Patricia Wentworth |
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Miss Maud Silver: retired governess and teacher who becomes a
professional private detective, in London, England |
| Lauren Willig |
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Eloise Kelly: Harvard
grad student writing her Ph.D. dissertation on spies of the late
18th and early 19th century, in a romantic thriller series |
| Mark Richard Zubro |
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Tom Mason:
gay teacher, and his lover, Scott Carpenter, a baseball
player, in Chicago, Illinois |
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