Sample of authors
Lockridge, Frances
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...
Literary figures
Lucius Leffing
Gender: Male
He loves everything Victorian, and has furnished his house in accordance with that. Lucius Leffing is an occult amateur detective, a ‘ghost-hunter’ who combats evil and supernatural adversaries in a number of books, primarily collections of short stories. He is unobtrusive, tall and slim, with a finely-chiselled face complete with moustache. Like his creator, Joseph Payne Brenna, he lives in New H...