Sample of authors
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The British author E. (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim achieved great international successes during the first half of the 20th century, and was called ‘the prince of story-tellers’. He wrote in several popular-literature genres, mainly spy and crime stories, but also science fiction, adventure stories and romance. He was born in London, but grew up in the city of Leicester where his father ran a lea...
Literary figures
Harriet Unwin
Gender: Female
She grew up in a children’s home in Victorian England and was forced to work hard. But the young Harriet Unwin struggles stubbornly until she gets a job as a maid and later as a governess. She also becomes unwillingly involved in some murder cases, described by Evelyn Hervey (pseudonym for H.R.F. Keating), which she solves by methods including pretending to be a detective and a journalist.