Photo: Richard Lewis /AP/TT (2001)
Sample of authors
Archer, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Howard Archer was a British author, politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his name in...
Literary figures
Gendarmerichef Laviolette
Gender: Male
Laviolette works as the head of the gendarmerie in Provence at the beginning of the 20th century. When readers meet him for the first time, he is investigating a strange case where people have died after using an aphrodisiac, and in which his 17-year-old son turns out to be involved. Pierre Magnan only wrote one more novel about the head of the gendarmerie, but he did write a whole series about...