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Walters, Minette
Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father was an army officer and her mother an artist. The family moved frequently due to the father’s profession, and Walters was mostly brought up on military bases. After her father had died of kidney failure in 1960, Walters attended the Abbey School at Reading, Berkshire, for a yea...
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Domare Di
Gender: Male
Judge Dee is based on a real person, the legendary seventh century Chinese judge Dee Jen-Djieh. Stories about him began to be written down early on. They were discovered by the Dutch sinologist Robert van Gulik who wrote a series of mystery stories based on him. Most are based on van Gulik’s own storylines featuring Dee.