Photo: Roger Tillberg / TT (1983)
Sample of authors
Lewis, Mary
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and children’s books authors of the second half of the 20th century, but she had a reputation for unpredictability. In the 1950s, for example, she suddenly took a ten-year break from writing crime novels in order to focus on short stories and children’s books.
Mary Milne was born in...
Literary figures
Edward Thackeray
Gender: Male
A patient and stoic detective constable at Scotland Yard during the Victorian era. He works side-by-side with his superior Sergeant Cribb in a suite of historical whodunits by Peter Lovesey. Edward Thackeray is dutiful and conscientious, but somewhat lacking in imagination, and he finds it hard to always keep up with Cribb’s reasoning. Besides, he is bad at spelling, which causes a number of e...