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Sample of authors
Bell, Josephine
Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a large number of short stories, one work of non-fiction as well as sixty-four novels, forty-five of which were detective novels or thrillers. She was born in Manchester as Doris Bell Collier. Bell's father, a doctor, died when she was seven. Her mother remarried a couple of...
Literary figures
Li Yan
Gender: Male
A young detective inspector in Beijing, China, who is always well dressed, polite (even when he is angry) and liked by women. A female police boss, Mei Ling, is in love with him, but Li Yan nevertheless starts a rather messy relationship with the internationally renowned American pathologist Margaret Campbell in six books and one long short story by Scottish author Peter May. Which results in...