Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906
Sample of authors
Hornung, E.W.
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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Literary figures
Paul Beck
Gender: Male
This English private detective – well known in his day – is a well-built middle-aged man with blue eyes, sideburns and a friendly demeanour: he could be mistaken for a retired milkman, explains author M. McDonnell Bodkin. Paul Beck is a respected detective, and in 1909 he marries his professional colleague, Dora Myrl. Already two years later, their now adult son Paul Beck Jr. solves his first cas...