Sample of authors
Cross, Amanda
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under the pen name Amanda Cross, which came to have a major influence on future women crime writers. She was born to a Jewish family in East Orange, New Jersey. The family moved to Manhattan in 1923 where Gold attended Birch Wathen School. She enrolled at Columbia University, New...
Literary figures
Timothy Trant
Gender: Male
Police detective in New York, well educated and always snobbishly dressed in tailored suits. Timothy ‘Tim’ Trant is stubborn, sometimes unscrupulous, when he carries out his murder investigations, and is in the habit of putting pressure on a suspect when he is actually gathering evidence against another. The books are written by Q. Patrick and Patrick Quentin, pseudonyms for Richard Webb and/or Hu...