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Batya Gur, Israel's cerebral Agatha Christie

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 20050522
Author:Talya Halkin

Talya Halkin
Jerusalem Post
05-22-2005
Headline: Batya Gur, Israel's cerebral Agatha Christie
Byline: Talya Halkin
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 08

Sunday, May 22, 2005 -- Internationally-acclaimed writer Batya Gur, who died Thursday in Jerusalem at the age of 57, was buried Friday at the Givat Shaul cemetery. Gur is survived by her three children from her first marriage, to the psychologist Amos Gur, and by her second husband, literary scholar Ariel Hirschfield.

Gur made a name for herself as the author of six thought-provoking, introspective detective novels starring the melancholy, ...

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