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Acting, Theater, Movies |
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| Jane Adams |
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Rina Martin: retired actress who played a private investigator
in a television series, in Frantham, England |
| Elizabeth Adler |
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Mac Reilly:
star of a television private eye series, and his girlfriend and
partner Sunny Alvarez, jet-setting here and there |
| Gary Alexander |
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Buster Hightower:
standup comic who gets entangled in international intrigue |
| Bevan Amberhill |
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Jean-Claude Keyes:
actor, writer, and amateur sleuth, at the Shakespeare Festival in
Stratford, Ontario, Canada |
| Sheila York |
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Lauren Atwill, a screenwriter, and private investigator Peter Winslow, based in 1940s Hollywood, California |
| Gwendoline Butler |
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Stella Pinero:
actress, and her husband John Coffin, a police
inspector rising through the ranks to Commissioner, in south London, England |
| James Calder |
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Bill Damen: filmmaker
turned sleuth, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California |
| Laura Caldwell |
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Izzy McNeil: young
entertainment lawyer in Chicago, Illinois |
| Jennifer Lee Carrell |
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Kate Stanley:
an academic sleuth, directing Shakespeare at the rebuilt Globe Theatre
in London, England, and elsewhere |
| Jeffrey Cohen |
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Elliot Freed:
recently divorced writer and proprietor of an old movie theater,
in New Jersey, in the Double Feature mysteries |
| Lesley Cookman |
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Libby Sarjeant: middle-aged actress and private investigator,
in Kent, England |
| Michael Craft |
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Claire Gray: theatrical
director in Palm Springs, California |
| Catherine Dain |
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Faith Cassidy:
actress-turned-therapist, in Los Angeles, California |
| Eileen Davidson |
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Alexis Peterson:
soap opera actress for 20 years, in the Soap Opera mysteries |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis |
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Julie Hayes:
actress turned gossip columnist and fortune teller, in New York City |
| Jeffery Deaver |
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Rune: aspiring
filmmaker with punk tendencies, in New York City |
| Elizabeth J. Duncan |
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Charlotte Fairfax, formerly the costume mistress of the Royal Shakespeare Company, now working as a costume designer for a small company in upstate New York, in the Shakespeare in the Catskills mysteries |
| Susan Dunlap |
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Darcy Lott: movie stuntwoman and Zen practitioner, in northern California |
| Terence Faherty |
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Scott Elliott:
1940s failed actor turned PI, in Hollywood, California |
| Gillian B. Farrell |
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Annie McGrogan:
actor and private investigator in New York City |
| Christa Faust |
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Angel Dare: retired
porn star running Daring Angels, an adult modeling agency, in Van
Nuys, California |
| Irene Fleming (Kate Gallison) |
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Emily Dagett
Weiss: struggling young movie-maker in the early 20th century,
in Fort Lee, New Jersey |
| Eileen Fulton |
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Mina McFall: TV soap opera star, and Dino Rossi, a police lieutenant, in New York City |
| Alan Furst |
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Jean Casson:
film producer caught up in the Resistance during WWII, in German-occupied
Paris, France |
| Sarah Gainham |
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Julia Homburg: leading
actress with the Burg Theater in the late 1930s and 1940s, in Vienna,
Austria |
| John Godey |
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Jack Albany: small-time actor mistaken for a Mafia hit-man, in
New York City |
| Philip Gooden |
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Nick Revill: actor
in Shakespearean times in London, England |
| Susan Goodwill |
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Kate London: who
owns the Egyptian Theatre with her Aunt Kitty, an eccentric former
B-grade movie star, on the west coast of Michigan |
| Ed Gorman |
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Jack Dwyer: ex-cop
part-time actor and security guard, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| Robert Gott |
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William Power: would-be
private detective leading a troupe of incompetent Shakespearean actors
during World War II, in Australia |
| Ron Goulart |
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Groucho Marx: movie
star in Hollywood, California |
| Ann Granger |
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Fran Varady: out-of-work actress turned private investigator,
in London, England |
| Elly Griffiths |
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Max Mephisto, formerly part of the Magic Men, stage magicians who performed special missions during WWII, and Edgar Stephens, a detective inspector, in 1950s Brighton, England |
| Kathryn Miller Haines |
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Rosie Winter:
an actress during WWII, in Manhattan, New York City |
| Parnell Hall |
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Stanley Hastings:
actor and private investigator in New York City |
| Simon Hawke |
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Tuck Smythe: aspiring
actor, and Will Shakespeare, a young writer, the Elizabethan era’s
answer to Holmes and Watson, in London, England |
| William Jefferies (Jeffery Deaver) |
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John Pellam: location
scout for a movie studio |
| R.T. Jordan |
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Polly Pepper: an aging,
legendary TV actress from the golden age, in Hollywood, California |
| Cady Kalian |
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Maggie Mars: struggling screenwriter and former investigative journalist, in Los Angeles, California |
| Frank King (Lydia Adamson) |
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Sally Tepper: unemployed actress with five dogs in New York City |
| Robert S. Levinson |
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Stevie Marriner:
soap opera star, and former spouse Neil Gulliver, ex- newspaper
crime reporter, in Los Angeles, California |
| Edward Marston |
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Nicholas Bracewell:
stage manager for an Elizabethan acting company in London, England |
| John Miles (Jack Bickham) |
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Johnelle “Johnny” Baker:
blonde former actress made sheriff
as a publicity stunt in Tenoclock, Colorado |
| Dallas Murphy |
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Artie
Deemer: jazz aficionado supported by his dog Jellyroll, a movie
and dog-food commercial star, in New York City |
| Deborah Nicholson |
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Kate Carpenter:
theater manager in Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 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 |
| Patrick Quentin |
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Peter Duluth: alcoholic
theatrical producer, and Iris Pattison, an actress (and later wife),
in California, Mexico City, and New York City |
| Les Roberts |
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Saxon:
actor and private eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Clive Rosengren |
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Eddie Collins: part-time actor and part-time sleuth, in Hollywood, California |
| Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen) |
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Drury Lane:
Shakespearian actor retired due to progressive deafness, on the Hudson
River, New York |
| Anne Rutherford |
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Suzanne Thornton: former kept woman, organizing a troupe of actors at the Globe, in 1660s London, England, in the Restoration mysteries |
| Louise Shaffer |
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Angie DaVito: TV soap opera producer in New York City |
| Elizabeth Sims |
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Rita Farmer: aspiring
actress and single mother, in Los Angeles, California |
| Simon Shaw |
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Philip Fletcher: British
thespian and killer in London, England |
| Kit Sloane |
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Margot O’Banion:
a film editor, and Max Skull, a movie director, based in Los Angeles,
California |
| Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) |
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Alan Grofield:
actor and part-time bank robber, in New York City |
| Jim Stinson |
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Spencer Churchill
(Stoney) Winston:
filmmaker at the bottom of
the Hollywood food chain, screenwriter, and film workshop teacher,
in Los Angeles, California |
| Susan Sussman & Sarajane Avidon |
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Morgan Taylor: struggling actress in Chicago, Illinois, and on a Caribbean cruise ship |
| Scarlett Thomas |
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Lily Pascale:
ex-teacher, ex-bartender, and ex-actress, now a professor
of creative writing in Devon, England |
| Nathan Walpow |
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Joe Portugal: actor
and plant lover in Los Angeles, California |
| Melinda Wells (Linda Palmer) |
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Della Carmichael:
owner of a cooking school and star of “Della Cooks,” a
cable TV cooking show, in Santa Monica, California |
| Collin Wilcox |
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Alan Bernhardt:
actor-director private investigator in San Francisco,
California |
| Sherryl Woods |
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Holly Dewitt: film
producer and single mother in Miami, Florida |
| Edward Wright |
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John Ray Horn: former
B-movie cowboy star and ex-con turned debt-collector, in 1940s Los
Angeles, California |
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