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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
Jude Nichols
Gender: Female
She is usually just called Jude: she rarely mentions her surname, and she says even less about her background. She is blonde and plump, and has gone through a whole row of lovers. Jude Nichols is also bohemian, noisy, full of vitality and works professionally as a healer using alternative methods in the village of Fethering. Together with her prim neighbour, Carole Seddon, she solves murder...