Photo: Paul McNicholls / Camera Press / TT (1979)
Sample of authors
Household, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. Immediately afterwards, he worked for a bank in Bucharest, Romania. In 1926, he moved to Spain where he sold bananas for a fruit company. In 1929, he went to the United States where he became a travelling salesman in printing i...
Literary figures
Michal Exner
Gender: Male
A young, handsome, always elegantly dressed detective captain with the Prague Police, he has a Ph.D in law, drives a Mercedes and has a comfortable bachelor pad to which he often invites his subordinates to drink coffee. Michal Exner has a sense of humour, appreciates beautiful women and good food: incidentally, he is a good cook himself. He is also the main character in just over a dozen crime...