Photo: Eyevine/TT (2012)
Sample of authors
Haynes, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...
Literary figures
Tish (Letitia) Carberry
Gender: Female
A jolly and good-hearted middle-aged spinster, who lives on money she has inherited, and lodges with a nephew, Charlie Sands. She is the main character in a whole row of short stories (but no novels) by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Together with her friends Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, Tish Carberry often goes travelling, which leads to her becoming involved in various dramatic events, which...