Sample of authors
Jónasson, Ragnar
The Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavik. He grew up in a writing family where several family members are authors. As a teenager, he started to read crime fiction and translated a long row of Agatha Christie’s books into Icelandic, one a year for 14 years starting when he was seventeen. Ragnar Jónasson studied Law and while studying he worked as a journalist for radio and TV on I...
Literary figures
Hugh Curtis
Gender: Male
Young, ambitious, newly-employed journalist on the London newspaper The Record. He is charming and has good looks, but nevertheless has problems in his job – especially when he must compete against Mollie Bourne, a beautiful, red-haired star reporter on the competitor The Courier. But they get on well, sometimes cooperating, and create headlines by solving murder cases in three books by Paul S...