Sample of authors
Wentworth, Patricia
"Patricia Wentworth" was born Dora Amy Elles in Mussoorie, India, during the British Raj. Her father was an army officer, and like her brothers she was sent to school in England. After attending Blackheath High School, London, she returned to India where she married George F. Dillon, an army officer, in 1906. He died the same year, leaving his wife with three stepsons and a newly born...
Literary figures
Roger Sheringham
Gender: Male
Bestseller-writer and crime reporter, born in 1891, and the main character in a suite of whodunnits by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). Roger Sheringham is short in stature, plump and talkative, smokes a pipe, loves beer and provides explanations for various murder cases – sometimes he is right, sometimes not. In the earliest books, there is something paradoxical about him, but as he grows older he b...