Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)
Sample of authors
Derleth, August
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...
Literary figures
Jakob Franck
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Jakob Franck in Munich is a pensioner, but the memory of all the murder victims and the despair of their loved ones doesn’t leave him in peace. Since his divorce, he lives alone in a slightly out-of-the-way part of Munich, which is also the home city of author Friedrich Ani. Franck is a loner, but when he is visited by the father of a dead girl, he starts working again w...