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Mavity, Nancy Barr

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Nancy Barr Mavity (1890-1959) was an American biographer and reviewer. She was born Nann Clark Barr and married Arthur Benton Mavity, with whom she wrote Responsible Citizenship in 1923. She was a reporter and the book reviewer for the Oakland Tribune. She also published a volume of poetry, A Dinner of Herbs.  She also wrote a number of travel articles in the '20's for Sunset Magazine when she traveled on her own to Japan, China, Indonesia Australia and New Zealand. She was widowed when her first husband Arthur Benton Mavity passed away in the midst of her writing career and she remarried a photographer, "Doc" Rogers, who had photographed the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. She also wrote articles and biographies, including one of Aimee Semple Macpherson. Mike Grost classifies her within the American Scientific school. Her series detective is Peter Piper, who appears in all but her final two mystery novels.

 

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The Body on the Floor (1929)

The Tule Marsh Murder (1929)

The Case of the Missing Sandals (1930)

The Other Bullet (1930)

He Didn't Mind Hanging (1932) aka The Man Who Didn't Mind Hanging (US)

The Fate of Jane Mckenzie (1933)

The State vs. Elna Jepson (1937)

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