" In Golden Age detective stories, an outsider — sometimes a salaried investigator or a police officer, but often a gifted amateur — investigates a murder committed in a closed environment by one of a limited number of suspects.

* Frederick Guthrie Tait, son of Peter Guthrie Tait, soldier and gifted amateur golfer, ( EA 1881-83 ).

Hoch's protagonist is a gifted amateur detective who uses pure brainpower to solve his cases.

Franz Schubert he considered " a gifted amateur ".

Franklin Blake, the gifted amateur, is an early example of the gentleman detective.

Talbot, a gifted amateur chemist, was able to chemically stabilize his images sufficiently to withstand subsequent inspection in daylight with only a very limited degree of discoloration.

Tait was an enthusiastic golfer and, of his seven children, two, Frederick Guthrie Tait ( 1870 – 1900 ) and John Guthrie Tait ( 1861 – 1945 ) went on to become gifted amateur champions.

Nicknamed " Little Doc " after his father, he originally wanted to play the trombone, which he discovered at neighbor Art Fletcher's home, but the senior Severinsen, a gifted amateur violinist, urged him to study that instrument instead.

A gifted detective, veteran undercover operative, and formidable unarmed combatant, Cassidy was an excellent marksman and a competent amateur machine-smith, well-versed in combat strategy & tactics, and teamwork drills, from his training at Interpol.

In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.

His mother was a gifted amateur watercolorist and Homer's first teacher, and she and her son had a close relationship throughout their lives.

Having been a gifted amateur as a pupil and as a player for his army regiment, he played for Portsmouth in the London War League in 1942 before moving to Southampton from 1943 to 1949 ( since 1944 as a professional ), and Tottenham Hotspur after that.

Jean-Robert Argand ( July 18, 1768 – August 13, 1822 ) was a gifted amateur mathematician.

Just as Hunter himself rose swiftly through the amateur ranks, the scholarship will give a gifted young player the chance to fulfil his talent through elite training.

Fortunately, this was an age of gifted amateur choruses, and conductors and institutions dedicated to bringing forward new music, and the Leeds Festival took on the first performance.

Marabini Moevs argued in an article for Bollettino d ’ Arte that the Warren Cup is not in fact a Roman product of the early Imperial period, but rather was executed around 1900 by a gifted silversmith trained in the contemporary Liberty style, perhaps commissioned by the amateur archaeologist and dealer Fausto Benedetti ( 1874 – 1931 ), to meet what he knew to be the taste of his foreign client and friend Edward Perry Warren.

She married Arthur Cardew, a civil servant and gifted amateur musician, on 17 April 1890.

In addition to his medical accomplishments, he was also a gifted amateur botanist, and published a book on the flora of the Grand-Duchy of Hesse.

Deering was a gifted amateur artist, and while still in the Navy he used his free time to become acquainted with leading artists and to visit the world's great art galleries.

** Thomas Kerrich, antiquary, draughtsman and gifted amateur artist ( born 1761 )

His mother was ' a gifted amateur ' artist in water-colours who died shortly after Charles ' birth.

Lady Waterford, a gifted amateur watercolourist with an interest in the welfare of the tenants on the estate, rebuilt the village.

The discovery of the other three works was due to the tireless research of André M. Smith, ( an eminent musicologist and former bass trombonist at the Metropolitan Opera, New York ) who was gifted the manuscripts by Ewald ’ s son-in-law, Yevgeny Gippius in 1964.

He is a gifted singer and composer, and it is hinted that he is the cursed fairy prince, Rigoletto.

Spohr's first musical encouragement came from his parents: his mother was a gifted singer and pianist, and his father played the flute.

The Jane Gifford was gifted to the Waiuku Historical Society by Captain Bert Subritzky and his wife Moana in 1985, where it was re-masted and re-rigged to its original splendor, while the Owhiti, which had starred in the 1983 movie Savage Islands ( starring Tommy Lee Jones and amongst others Kiwi icon and singer Prince Tui Teka as King Ponapa ), was sold to Captain Dave Skyme in the late 1980s and fully restored to its 1924 sea worthiness.

In the 2005 made-for-television movie The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz Dorothy was portrayed as a gifted teenage singer ( played by Ashanti ) who wanted nothing more than to get out of Kansas and sing with the Muppets Star Hunt tour.

In January 2010, Dame Kiri and BBC Radio 2 launched an initiative to find a gifted opera singer of the future.

Cecilia spoke Latin fluently and was said to be a gifted musician and singer.

According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane she provides " extraordinary, crystal-clear vocals [...] a soulfulness that was the mark of a truly gifted singer ".

According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane in his Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, Matthews provides " extraordinary, crystal-clear vocals [...] a soulfulness that was the mark of a truly gifted singer ".

His mother Therèse ( von ) Ulmann was a gifted singer of German origin.

Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova ( Aleksandrov's wife ), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics.

It was not long before the gifted young singer began receiving recognition for her talent.

She was golden-haired with dark eyes, a gifted singer and dancer, fluent in French, Italian, and Spanish.

" Ever wonder what it would have been like to listen to a gifted singer / songwriter from Saskatchewan in a small, intimate hall before she became Joni Mitchell?

She came from a musically gifted family, her maternal aunt Giuseppina Grassini ( 1773 – 1850 ) being a favourite opera singer both on the continent and in London.

A guitarist and gifted singer ; the nature of her gift is revealed during the course of the novel.

In 1979, Thornton married Gail Jones, a gifted singer and former member of The Jones Sisters Trio gospel group.

A highly gifted singer, Strepponi excelled in the bel canto repertoire and spent much of her career portraying roles in operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, often sharing the stage with tenor Napoleone Moriani and baritone Giorgio Ronconi.

* PV2 Avery " Angel " King ( Keith Robinson ) — a gifted singer hailing from a small town in Arkansas, enlisted in a fit of anger at not making a competitive choir, a decision the 20 – year – old devout Christian comes to regret.

Emilie Högquist have been compared to the opera singer Henriette Widerberg, as their lives, personalities and careers were much alike, and she was also to replace Widerberg in many ways, though she is regarded as much more gifted artistically then Widerberg, who was an excellent singer but more talked about for her beauty.

Tay was also musically gifted, sang with the school choir, played the dizi in the Chinese orchestra, and was the lead singer and guitarist of the Temasek Hall Band " Cognitive Dissonance ".

Alfred Dürr assumes that Bach had an unusually gifted singer, adding that a female voice was unlikely in conservative Leipzig.

Despite these problems though, Misery has actually been revealed to be an incredibly gifted singer.