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  • 71Émile Gaboriau — (November 9, 1832 September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction.LifeGaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after… …

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  • 72A Pocket Full of Rye — infobox Book | name = A Pocket Full of Rye title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the first UK edition author = Agatha Christie illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre …

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  • 73Postern of Fate — Infobox Book name = Postern of Fate title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the first UK edition author = Agatha Christie cover artist = Margaret Murray country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre =… …

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  • 74Librarians in popular culture — Stereotypes of librarians in popular culture are frequently negative: bookish characters who may be prim and introverted if female, or timid and mild if male. Such stereotypes are likely to have a negative impact on the attractiveness of… …

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  • 75Serena Sebastian — Infobox animanga character name = Serena Sebastian series = Case Closed ( Detective Conan ) caption = first = last = creator = Gosho Aoyama voiced by = Laura Bailey (English) Naoko Matsui (Japanese) oaux* = nickname = alias = age = 17 gender =… …

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  • 76William Powell — Infobox actor bgcolour = silver name = William Powell imagesize = 150px caption = from the early 1920s birthname = William Horatio Powell birthdate = birth date|1892|7|29|mf=y location = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania deathdate = death date and… …

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  • 77Whistling in Brooklyn — Infobox Film name = Whistling in Brooklyn image size = caption = director = S. Sylvan Simon producer = George Haight writer = Nat Perrin Wilkie C. Mahoney (add. dialogue) Stanley Roberts (uncredited) starring = Red Skelton Ann Rutherford Jean… …

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  • 78McCall Smith, Alexander — ▪ 2009 Sandy McCall Smith  born Aug. 24, 1948, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]       On March 23, 2008, BBC television broadcast an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith s best selling novel The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (1998) to… …

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  • 79List of fictional Romans — For individual Roman fiction, see Fiction set in the Roman empire. This article is a list of fictional characters in written fiction and other forms of media set during the period of the Roman Republic and/or the Roman Empire. This list is… …

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  • 80Gaston Leroux — Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May, 1868, Paris, France ndash; 15 April, 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.In the English speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera ( Le Fantôme de l …

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