Pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball. She was born in Manchester. She studied medicine. She also wrote historical novels. She is the creator of 'David Wintringham', a junior assistant physician at Research Hospital in London.
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Pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball. She was born in Manchester. She studied medicine. She also wrote historical novels. She is the creator of 'David Wintringham', a junior assistant physician at Research Hospital in London. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'David Wintringham' Novels | |
| 1) Death on the Borough Council | 1937 |
| 2) Murder in Hospital | 1937 |
| 3) Fall Over Cliff | 1938 |
| 4) Death at Half-Term (US Title: Curtain Call for a Corpse [1965]) | 1939 |
| 5) From Natural Causes | 1939 |
| 6) All Is Vanity | 1940 |
| 7) Death at the Medical Board | 1944 |
| 8) Death in Clairvoyance | 1949 |
| 9) The Summer School Mystery | 1950 |
| 10) Bones in the Barrow | 1953 |
| 11) The China Roundabout (US Title: Murder on the Merry-Go-Round [1965]) | 1956 |
| 12) The Seeing Eye | 1958 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) The Port of London Murders | 1938 |
| 2) Trouble at Wrekin Farm | 1942 |
| 3) The Backing Winds | 1951 |
| 4) To Let, Furnished (US Title: Stranger on a Cliff [1964]) | 1952 |
| 5) Fires at Fairlawn | 1954 |
| 6) Death in Retirement | 1956 |
| 7) Double Doom | 1957 |
| 8) Easy Prey | 1959 |
| 9) The House Above the River | 1959 |
| 10) A Well-Known Face | 1960 |
| 11) New People at the Hollies | 1961 |
| 12) Adventure with Crime | 1962 |
| 13) A Flat Tyre in Fulham (US Title: Fiasco in Fulham [1963]) (Also published as: Room for a Body [1964]) | 1963 |
| 14) The Hunter and the Trapped | 1963 |
| 15) The Alien | 1964 |
| 16) The Upfold Witch | 1964 |
| 17) No Escape | 1965 |
| 18) The Catalyst | 1966 |
| 19) Death on the Reserve | 1966 |
| 20) Death of a Con Man | 1968 |
| 21) The Fennister Affair | 1969 |
| 22) The Wilberforce Legacy | 1969 |
| 23) A Hydra with Six Heads | 1970 |
| 24) A Hole in the Ground | 1971 |
| 25) Death of a Poison-Tongue | 1972 |
| 26) A Pigeon Among the Cats | 1974 |
| 27) Victim | 1975 |
| 28) The Trouble in Hunter Ward | 1976 |
| 29) Such a Nice Client (US Title: A Stroke of Death [1977]) | 1977 |
| 30) A Swan-Song Betrayed (US Title: Treachery in Type [1980]) | 1978 |
| 31) Wolf! Wolf! | 1979 |
| 32) A Question of Inheritance | 1980 |
| 33) The Innocent (US Title: A Deadly Place to Stay [1983]) | 1983 |