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Legal name: Doolittle, Jerome Hill
Other names: Doolittle, Jerry
Birthdate: 1933-07-15
Date of death: 2023-11-19
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Salisbury, Connecticut, USA
Cause of death: sepsis, complications
Places of residence: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Morocco
Vientiane, Laos
West Cornwall, Connecticut, USA
Education: Indian Mountain School, Lakeville, Connecticut
Middlebury College, Vermont, USA (Bx)
Occupations: humorist, newspaper
press attaché
writer
speechwriter
mystery writer
teacher
Organizations: US Army
Washington Post
US diplomatic corps
Jimmy Carter campaign & administration
Harvard University

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Bear Hug: A Tom Bethany Mystery by Jerome Doolittle

Another GREAT Tom Bethany mystery - has one of the funniest lines I've read recently.

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susandennis | 1 other review | Jun 5, 2020 |

Strangle Hold by Jerome Doolittle

I'm really getting addicted to these Tom Bethany mysteries. The tone is perfect and the plot is very satisfying - kind of things you want to see happen to bad guys but rarely really do.

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susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |

Half Nelson: A Tom Bethany Mystery by Jerome Doolittle

Another great Tom Bethany mystery. One more to go in the series... am already wishing there were more... (reviewed in 1996)

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susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |

Kill Story (Tom Bethany) by Jerome Doolittle

Alas, Kill Story looks like it might be the last of the Tom Bethany series. It also may be the best but the rest shouldn't be missed either. Tom Bethany is his own man who's stories turn into mysteries in and around mainly Boston. All of Doolittle's characters deserve series of their own - maybe some enlightened publisher (is that an oxymoron?) will discover this - I only hope so.

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