Photo: Keystone Pictures USA / TT (1973)
Sample of authors
Simenon, Georges
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian author. He was born to Catholic middle-class parents in Liège. Georges Simenon is considered among the foremost and most popular French-speaking authors of the 20th century. He was extremely prolific. His exact output is unknown, but estimates suggest that he wrote between 200 and 300 novels, over a thousand short stories as well as innumerable ...
Literary figures
Montague Egg
Gender: Male
A travelling salesman for a wine importer in England, and the main character in almost a dozen short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. The round-cheeked, red-faced and stable Montague Egg is a bachelor, always on the move, always very friendly and with the gift of the gab, and he wears a trilby. But he is also a skilled amateur detective, not least thanks to The Salesman’s Handbook which he often c...