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Moyes, Patricia
Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton 1934–39 and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War, achieving the rank of flight officer. After the war she was hired by Peter Ustinov as an assistant after which she was assistant editor of English Vogue between 1953 and 1958. She spent a la...
Literary figures
Ambrose Chitterwick
Gender: Male
A very different detective hero: a mild-eyed, very discreet elderly English gentleman with a totally nondescript appearance. This doesn’t prevent amateur criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick – to the great annoyance of Scotland Yard’s top brass – from solving a handful really tricky murder cases in books by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). How he actually succeeds in achieving this is a mystery, not least for...