Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906
Sample of authors
Hornung, E.W.
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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Literary figures
Charlie Hood
Gender: Male
He is employed by the Los Angeles police, but has been lent out to the federal police and works for them in the border areas between the USA and Mexico in most of the books about him by T. Jefferson Parker. Charlie Hood is young, good-looking but with an everyday appearance, and lives alone. The great love of his life, the criminal Suzanne Jones, is killed already in the first novel. In his...