Lange Lewis

Jane de Lange Lewis, known by her pen names Lange Lewis, Jane Beynon and Jane Lewis Brandt, was an American author. She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1939 and began writing mystery novels, the first two of which – Murder Among Friends and Juliet Dies Twice – were set at a fictional university standing in for USC. She wrote three other books in the series, which followed a fictional lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, Richard Tuck: Meat for Murder, The Birthday Murder and The Passionate Victims.

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