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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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Henry Tibbett

Gender: Male

He starts as an ordinary detective inspector, but works his way up to become a chief superintendent with the London Police, in a suite of novels by Patricia Moyes. Henry Tibbett is a friendly, unobtrusive gentleman with an ordinary appearance, but he is also a skilled police officer greatly respected by his colleagues. He does, however, get quite a lot of help from his wife, Emmy, who quite...

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