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Jesse, F. Tennyson

A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur criminologist. She was known under a few variations of her name – born Wynifried Margaret Jesse, her given name often spelled Winifred. As a journalist, she sometimes called herself Wynifried Margaret Tennyson, though her obituaries mentioned her as Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Har...

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Mrs. Norris

Gender: Female

Her husband died after they had been married a short time, so Mrs Norris – whose first name is Annie, which is rarely used – moved to Scotland and became the housekeeper for a general. The short and somewhat plump elderly lady becomes involved in murder cases which she solves in novels by Dorothy Salisbury Davis with the help of her ward James ‘Jimmie’ Jarvis and Jasper Tully, the prosecutor’s ass...

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