Photo: (1952) ANL/REX / TT
Sample of authors
Marquand, John P.
The American author John Phillips Marquand was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents were wealthy, but they lost their fortune in the financial panic of 1907 and were forced to move to Panama – Marquand’s father was a canal engineer – and Marquand was left in the care of his eccentric aunts. He then attended Harvard on a grant, which made him a socially inferior student at the prestigious univ...
Literary figures
Dora Myrl
Gender: Female
One of the first female private detectives in English crime fiction, a delicate, jolly young lady who looks like a schoolgirl. She tries everything new: already in 1900 she is a seasoned cyclist. Dora Myrl is also such a clever detective that the famous Paul Beck marries her in 1909, and two years later their creator M. McDonnell Bodkin lets the couple’s adult (!) son solve his first case.