Sample of authors
Blædel, Sara
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...
Literary figures
Hilda Adams
Gender: Female
She is a young, attractive and also well-educated and experienced nurse, and her friend Detective Inspector Patton calls her ‘Miss Pinkerton’. Hilda Adams looks after wealthy patients in their homes, and she gets an infallible feeling when something is wrong – and thanks to her own investigations she can give the police decisive clues. Mary Roberts Rinehart has written two novels about her.