Sample of authors
Vidocq, Eugène François
Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and master-of-disguise Eugène François Vidocq. And one can well ask whether anybody has written an autobiography with such great literary influence. He also features under his own name as well as rather obvious aliases in a number of books, and has been the subject of a lot of films, T...
Literary figures
Peter Decker
Gender: Male
When he falls in love with the Jewish widow Rina Lazarus, the parents of the divorced single father and police inspector Peter Decker reveal that he is adopted, and that his biological parents were Jews. He changes religion, and can marry Rina. Together, they solve a row of criminal cases in Faye Kellerman’s books, where one of them – or sometimes both of them – plays the main role.