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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
Kai Bugge
Gender: Male
A middle-aged Norwegian psychoanalyst, whom author Bernhard Borge (pseudonym for André Bjerke) partly based on his friend, psychoanalyst Trygve Braatøy. Kai Bugge is calm and logical and is said to be known for his book Das Verbrechen als Erlösung. He is considered to be the first ‘psychological’ problem-solver in Nordic crime fiction, and the three books about him are regarded as classics.