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Portrait of Julie Parsons Photo: Anna Littorin / TT (2000)

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Parsons, Julie

Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in 1947. They had both been in the armed services during the Second World War, her father Andy in the army and her mother Elisabeth in the navy. When their daughter was five years old, the father – who was a doctor – disappeared on a sailing boat off the coast of Samoa; the boa...

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Mervyn Bunter

Gender: Male

Second only to Wodehouse’s incomparable Jeeves, Bunter is regarded as the most famous butler of a classic English type. He is Lord Peter Wimsey’s patient and always correct butler in the classic detective stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and he also carries out with honour some scouting missions. He only loses his temper when the housekeeper washes the dusty, carefully stored bottles of port wine.

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