AlasBabylon's Trivia - 462.1 It’s a Mystery

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462.1 It’s a Mystery

462.1.1 Which author brings us Seattle Police detective Lou Boldt
and forensic psychologist Daphne Mathews?

462.1.2 Which author brings us Mma Precious Ramotswe of The
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?

462.1.3 Which author brings us Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves,
who work together in Victorian England to solve crimes?

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factoid: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
Mary Norton was an English children's author. Her books include The
Borrowers series.

Norton was the daughter of a physician, and was raised in a Georgian
house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house now
consists of part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as
The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The
Borrowers. She married Robert Charles Norton on 4th September 1946 and
had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Her second husband was Lionel
Boncey, who she married in 1970. She began working for the War Office
in 1940 before the family moved temporarily to the United States.

She began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission
in New York during the Second World War. Her first book was The Magic
Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons published in
1943, which, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, became
the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Mary Norton died of a heart attack in Bideford, Devon, England on 29th
August 1992.
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