Bell, Josephine

Bell, Josephine

▪ British physician and writer
pseudonym of  Doris Bell Ball , née  Collier 
born Dec. 8, 1897, Manchester, Eng.
died April 24, 1987

      English physician and novelist best known for her numerous detective (detective story) novels, in which poison and unusual methods of murder are prominent.

      She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge (1916–19), and University College Hospital, London, and was a practicing physician from 1922 to 1954, first in Greenwich and London and then in Guildford, Surrey. She married a fellow physician, Norman Dyer Ball, in 1923 (he died in 1935).

      In 1937 her first novel, Murder in Hospital, was published, featuring David Wintringham, M.D., a fictional doctor-detective. Dozens of other mysteries followed. She also wrote many nondetective novels, short stories, radio plays, and some nonfiction pieces, such as Crime in Our Time (1962), all under her pseudonym.

      Later works include the historical novel A Question of Loyalties (1974), A Pigeon Among the Cats (1974), and Such a Nice Client (1977; also published as Stroke of Death).

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