Sample of authors
Bailey, H.C.
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the golden age of the 1920s and '30s. The others are Agatha Christie, F. Wills Crofts, R. Austin Freeman and Dorothy L. Sayers. But he began his career by writing historic fiction.
H.C. Bailey was born in London where he lived for most of his life. After graduating from Corpus...
Literary figures
Fin Macleod
Gender: Male
A middle-aged, ordinary security director and former police detective in Edinburgh, who moves to the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides after his son has been killed in a road accident. This has also led to the collapse of his marriage with Mona. Fin Macleod is worn-out and sad, but in the so-called Lewis Trilogy by Peter May is involved in crime cases that he solves thanks to his knowledge...