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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
Alan Grant
Gender: Male
Alan Grant is a Scottish detective inspector employed by Scotland Yard, although he would not really have to work for a living as he has inherited a small fortune from a relative. He solves crime in a string of whodunits by Josephine Tey. With his nondescript personality he blends in everywhere. He is a skilled, although rather one-dimensional, detective.