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James, P.D.
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in 1937. She served in the Red Cross during the war, and in 1941 she married Ernest Connor Bantry White. Although she dreamed of becoming a writer she helped her husband pass medical school while looking after the couple's daughters. After his return from the war, her husband...
Literary figures
Mr. Moto
Gender: Male
He introduces himself as I.A. Moto, but that is certainly not his name: he is a secret agent of the Japanese emperor, and is called only Mr. Moto. He is a highly educated, aristocratic judo master, is small and with a "typically Japanese" appearance. He rarely investigates cases, but helps others (mainly Americans) solve them, according to American author John P. Marquand.