Megan Rutt

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The Life Of Joan Lowery Nixon

• By
• Megan Rutt
• Courtney Martin

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Joan Lowery Nixon

• Date of birth February 3rd, 1927
• Place of birth Los Angles, California
• 1st book published The Weekend Was Murder
• The place she died Houston Texas
• She died of pancreatic cancer
• The date she died Saturday June 28, 2003

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10 Most Recent Books

• Laugh Till You Cry
• Two Mysteries
• Nightmare
• The Making of a Writer
• Playing for Keeps
• Nobodys There
• Champagne for Murder
• Who Are You?
• The Haunting
• Murdered My Sweet

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Summary of Lucys Wish

• Main Characters Lucy, Emma, Kelly, Daisy, and
  Orphans
• Setting Old West
• Plot
• - Lucy makes a wish for a sister
• -Lucy gets a sister
• -Daisy throws Lucys doll baby into the bull
  fence
• Problem Lucy needs a family
• Solution she goes on a orphan train to find a
  new family

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Summary of Caught in the Act

• Main Characters Mike, Papa, Mama, Marta, Rueben,
  Gunter
• Setting Fredrichs house
• Plot
• - Mike dropped a plate and broke it, so he got
  beaten by Papa
• - Gunter tells his father the Mike stole his
  golden watch but Gunter really slipped it in
  Mikes pocket
• - Reuben got fired by Papa
• Problem Mike can not find Reuben
• Solution Mike goes looking for him

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Other Information

• Her first book was published when she was ten
• 4 time winner of mystery writers
• Wrote about 637 books
• Had 4 children
• Received a degree in journalism
• Husbands name was Harshell
• Some of her series are The Orphan Train
  Adventures