Sample of authors
Uhnak, Dorothy
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the Bronx, New York, where she lived all her life. Her father was a projectionist who occasionally cooperated with the police when they needed to consult a movie expert. His daughter became fascinated with police procedure and soon became a fixture at the local precinct where she...
Literary figures
Easy (Ezekiel) Rawlins
Gender: Male
Afro-American war veteran, who in the late 1940s established himself as a private detective in Los Angeles. In the books by Walter Mosley we get to follow his life during the decades that follow. For example, Ezekiel Porterhouse ‘Easy’ Rawlins gets married to Regina, they have a daughter Edna and adopt the dumb Jesus. Easy is a pleasant, quick-thinking and nice-looking man and he uses fantastic, c...