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Grafton, Sue
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren Grafton, was a lawyer and author, and her mother a high school chemistry teacher. C.W. Grafton was the author of four novels, three detective stories and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1950), a courtroom novel and minor classic.
Both Grafton’s parents developed a drinking p...
Literary figures
Touie (Toussaint) Moore
Gender: Male
He is considered the first credible African-American private detective in crime fiction. Toussaint “Touie” Moore, however, left the profession at his own request to become a mail carrier, but was forced for financial reasons to take a new assignment as a detective when his wife Frances became pregnant. He is depicted by his creator Ed Lacy (pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg) as a pipe smoker and a...