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Moyes, Patricia
Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton 1934–39 and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War, achieving the rank of flight officer. After the war she was hired by Peter Ustinov as an assistant after which she was assistant editor of English Vogue between 1953 and 1958. She spent a la...
Literary figures
Harriet Martens
Gender: Female
Not without reason, she is called ‘The Hard Detective’, and Chief Inspector Harriet Martens in Greater Birchester is tough. She needs to be: she has to sort our various problems in her own police force as well as struggling against uncomprehending superiors. But her creator H.R.F. Keating lets her have a happy private life with her husband John – at any rate until their adult twin sons are the vic...