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Fyfield, Frances

Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of the British crime-writer Frances Hegarty who grew up in Derbyshire, England. Her father was a physician, and despite his alcohol problems she claims she had a safe and happy upbringing. Her parents often encouraged their children to read, which the young Frances took to heart. She was educated at convent schools and graduated from Helena Grammar School in...

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Arlette van der Valk

Gender: Female

When she was young, she was called Davidson, but the changed her surname after marrying Detective Superintendent Piet Van der Valk in Amsterdam. She is a temperamental, intelligent master-chef and music lover, a minor character in most of the novels about her husband. When he is murdered, Arlette Van der Valk exposes the perpetrator, and then continues as a private detective to solve cases on...

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