Sample of authors
George, Elizabeth
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth George attended school there. She soon developed a taste for reading, and when she was seven years old she began to write little stories. After attending the University of California, Riverside, graduating with a major in English, she taught English between 1974 and 1987 at...
Literary figures
C.D. Sloan
Gender: Male
An esteemed Chief Inspector has many names – not least when it comes to Christopher Dennis Sloan in the books by Catherine Aird. For colleagues and the public (and readers) he is known as C.D., for relatives and friends as ‘Seedy’. He is of early middle age, works in the fictional county of West Calleshire in England, where he was also born, and is married to Margaret who – in the middle of a murd...