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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
George Crowder
Gender: Male
He was a successful prosecutor and politician, but when George Crowder finds out that a man he had got sentenced to death was innocent, he fled from everything to live alone in the forests of Connecticut. He only sees his nephew, twelve-year-old Joey Trimble, who calls him Uncle George. But when necessary he nevertheless turns up and solves murder cases in books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym för ...