Pierre Ayraud (right) with Pierre Boileau Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match via Getty Images (1977)
Sample of authors
Ayraud, Pierre
Pierre Ayraud, who published his books under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac, and Pierre Boileau are two of the best known names in French crime writing. Together, they wrote a large number of detective novels signed Boileau-Narcejac, and they were prominent figures on the late 20th century literary scene. Ayraud was also a great connoisseur of crime writing, and he wrote several famous...
Literary figures
Beatrice Lestrange Bradley
Gender: Female
Famous psychologist, honorary PhD at several universities, but eccentric and very unsympathetic. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, resident in Wandles Parva, a little village in Hampshire, is middle-aged, has black hair, a masculine build and a narrow face which can assume a snake-like appearance. She has been married and has children, but she devotes her interest to solving cases in novels by...