Sample of authors
MacBride, Stuart
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where he attended Middlefield Academy and Westhill Academy. He went on to study architecture at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh without graduating. He has worked with scrubbing toilets on an oil rig and he was a graphic designer, actor, undertaker and computer programmer before...
Literary figures
Henry Gamadge
Gender: Male
American antiquarian bookseller, who is also an author, bibliophile and expert on rare books and manuscripts, as well as being a friendly and thoughtful amateur detective. He is tall, but has a hunchback from sitting bent over books, and has a wise wife in Clara. Henry Gamadge solves a number of cases – many of which are concerned with literature or the theatre – in 16 whodunnits by Elizabeth Dal...