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Lathen, Emma
Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...
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Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her father, Tomas Roberts, was an inventor and sewing machine salesman who committed suicide in 1895, and as a result the family endured long periods of financial distress. Rinehart attended Allegheny High School, graduating in 1893. She trained as a nurse at the Homeopathic Hospital...