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Suzanne's Law is named after Edinburgh book-keeper Suzanne Pilley, who disappeared in 2010 after breaking off an affair with a work colleague.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for 10 years before enrolling at drama school in Coventry in 1973.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023

From his grand Manhattan office on 26 Broadway, the fastidiously punctual former book-keeper, with an eye permanently on the ledger, launched a “cut-to-kill” strategy whenever competition threatened his stranglehold on the kerosene industry.

From Economist • May 26, 2016

Oskar Gröning, now 93, was a book-keeper of sorts in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

From Economist • Apr. 30, 2015

Was it the book-keeper who, every report that he made, swore to a lie?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green