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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...

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Mma Makutsi

Gender: Female

She struggles with her poor skin and unflattering spectacles, but Mma Grace Makutsi has impressively high grades from her secretarial course and is a lady with skin on her nose and a sharp tongue. In Alexander McCall Smith’s suite of novels about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Mma Makutsi is first employed, but after a while becomes a part-owner of the agency. S...

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