Josephine Bell

Josephine Bell (December 8, 1897 – 1987) was an English physician and author.

She was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester. Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College Hospital in London she was granted M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1922, and a M.B. B.S. in 1924.

In 1923 she married Dr. Norman Dyer Ball, and the couple had a son and three daughters. From 1927 until 1935 the couple practiced medicine in Greenwich and London. Her husband died in 1936 and she moved to Guildford, Surrey. From 1954–62 she was a member of the management committee of St. Luke's Hospital.

Using her pen name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in 1936. Many of her works used a medical background. Her early books featured the fictional character Dr. David Wintringham who worked at Research Hospital in London as a junior assistant physician. She helped found the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and served as chair during 1959–60.

Bibliography

David Wintringham

*"Death on the Borough Council", 1937
*"Murder in Hospital", 1937
*"Fall Over Cliff", 1938
*"Death at Half-Term", 1939
*"From Natural Causes", 1939
*"All Is Vanity", 1940
*"Death at the Medical Board", 1944
*"Death in Clairvoyance", 1949
*"The Summer School Mystery", 1950
*"Bones in the Barrow", 1953
*"The China Roundabout", 1956
*"The Seeing Eye", 1958

Other novels

*"The Port of London Murders", 1938
*"Trouble at Wrekin Farm", 1942
*"The Backing Winds", 1951
*"To Let, Furnished", 1952
*"Fires at Fairlawn", 1954
*"Death in Retirement", 1956
*"Double Doom", 1957
*"Easy Prey", 1959
*"The House Above the River", 1959
*"A Well-Known Face", 1960
*"New People at the Hollies", 1961
*"Adventure with Crime", 1962
*"A Flat Tyre in Fulham", 1963
*"The Hunter and the Trapped", 1963
*"The Alien", 1964
*"The Upfold Witch", 1964
*"No Escape", 1965
*"The Catalyst", 1966
*"Death on the Reserve", 1966
*"Death of a Con Man", 1968
*"The Fennister Affair", 1969
*"The Wilberforce Legacy", 1969
*"A Hydra with Six Heads", 1970
*"A Hole in the Ground", 1971
*"Death of a Poison-Tongue", 1972
*"A Pigeon Among the Cats", 1974
*"Victim", 1975
*"The Trouble in Hunter Ward", 1976
*"Such a Nice Client", 1977
*"A Swan-Song Betrayed", 1978
*"Wolf! Wolf!", 1979
*"A Question of Inheritance", 1980
*"The Innocent", 1983

External links

* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels/bell.htm Josephine Bell 1897-1987] , Crime & Mystery Fiction.
* [http://www.detective-fiction.com/josephine-bell.htm Josephine Bell] , Detective-Fiction.com.
* [http://www.thecwa.co.uk/history.html History of the CWA] .