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Sample of authors
Cleeves, Ann
The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After dropping out of Sussex University she worked as a childcare officer, an auxiliary coastguard and cook. She has supported women’s shelters and she has worked as a probation officer. She is also a filmmaker and she has organized book clubs in prisons. She is married to an o...
Literary figures
Steven Mitchell
Gender: Male
He is a ‘typical’ Scotland Yard chief inspector: of average height, with an everyday and friendly countenance, and he likes to wear a mackintosh and a bowler hat. He is also a thorough investigator who appreciates work discipline and routine work. He cooperates with amateur detectives, but it is often Steven Mitchell who arrives at the correct solutions in the books that Josephine Bell has wri...