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Sample of authors
Bell, Josephine
Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a large number of short stories, one work of non-fiction as well as sixty-four novels, forty-five of which were detective novels or thrillers. She was born in Manchester as Doris Bell Collier. Bell's father, a doctor, died when she was seven. Her mother remarried a couple of...
Literary figures
Bo (Barbara) Bradley
Gender: Female
With the mano-depressive legally-trained investigator Barbara ‘Bo’ Bradley in San Diego, author Abigail Padgett created one of the weirder detectives in literature. His good deeds include supporting children who have been badly treated. He is handsome, has red hair and green eyes, but struggles with the fact that he is beginning to be overweight and the memory of when his sister, Laurie, com...