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Fyfield, Frances

Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of the British crime-writer Frances Hegarty who grew up in Derbyshire, England. Her father was a physician, and despite his alcohol problems she claims she had a safe and happy upbringing. Her parents often encouraged their children to read, which the young Frances took to heart. She was educated at convent schools and graduated from Helena Grammar School in...

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Jimmie Haswell

Gender: Male

A jolly young criminal lawyer, working in London. He has a minor role in the English writer Herbert Adams’ first crime novel, The Secret of Bogey House, but subsequently solves tricky cases in more than half a dozen whodunits, and is then more active as a detective than as a lawyer. In his free time, Haswell plays golf and quietly flirts with young ladies until he finally marries one of them.

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