Photo: Titti Fabi / Camera Press/TT (2005)
Sample of authors
Lansdale, Joe R.
American author, combat athlete and self-defence expert, born and raised in Gladewater, Texas. The incredibly productive Joe R. (Richard) Lansdale has written novels and short stories in many different genres: westerns, horror, science fiction, children’s books, erotica, fantasy, crime, thrillers etc. He has also written screenplays for TV and texts for several graphic series. He is, however, p...
Literary figures
Wick (Wickham) Gore
Gender: Male
The British officer and big-game hunter Wickham Gore comes home after two years in Africa and finds himself involved in a suspected murder – which he solves so elegantly that he subsequently starts up his own detective agency. He is 40+, has a youthful, slim figure, slightly greying hair, a moustache and sparkling eyes. And he is the problem-solver in seven whodunnits by Lynn Brock (pseudonym f...