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Carol by Steven Kinsella



Carol Hardel

Discoverer of the genetic component of arachnophobia, leading to the development of a clinical treatment for the condition.


Carol Bingley-Wyse

Author of the Maude Breckholm series of detective novels, she was the first winner of the Brookham Prize for literary excellence in 1965.


Carol Dellington

Harvested the organs of over 500 individuals between October 1976 and July 2001. Her victims were known criminals and she sold the organs to a variety of illegal medical facilities in South America, which provided cut-rate transplant procedures.


Carol Greene

Was falsely accused of the arson of Thamesbury Cathedral in 1893. She investigated the incident herself and uncovered the conspiracy between Bishop Omer Start and cotton merchant Adingley Conson, which had resulted in the destruction of the cathedral to cover up several murders.


Carol Levingly

On 7 April 1992, became the still undiscovered eighth victim of the Reading Strangler. Her body will never be found.


Carol Hashili

While working as a designer for Andrex, she invented serviettes/napkins after making an error in measurements. She was fired for her initial error and never received any compensation for her creation.


Carol Twelveday

After studying the behaviour of the starling for most of her life, she wrote ‘Whispers on the Wind’ in which she presented an explanation of starling murmurations, suggesting that the patterns are images generated by a starling ‘groupmind’ or emergent intelligence. Although initially met with ridicule, her ideas have since been adopted many of those working in the field of Artificial Intelligence.


Carol Formby

In 2015, under the guise of the Shepley Reading Circle, she sacrificed herself and the other members of the Circle as offerings to Ashahariman (The Only Truth is a Lie) at the completion of the Rite of Gashakan, ushering in the End Times.


Carol Polic

A passionate gardener and renowned horticulturist, she was responsible for saving the Archipelagic Penguin from extinction in 1988. Due to a later incident involving a lawn mower and homebrewed ale, she was also responsible for the extinction of the Archipelagic Penguin in 1989.


Carol Pnumis

Born on an unknown date in the future, she will achieve little of note during her life and die in virtual anonymity. Her single claim to fame will be that she somehow becomes humanity’s first, and possibly only, time traveller, with the date of her death occurring some 18 years prior to her birth. The circumstances of this will remain as unknown as she.