Sample of authors
Reilly, Helen
Critics often regard Helen Reilly as one of the most important female American crime writers of the 1930s. One reason for this distinction is that most of her peers at the time dedicated themselves to romantic suspense, while Reilly instead wrote a series of realistic stories about police work, told from the perspective of the cops themselves. Her main protagonist is inspector McKee of the...
Literary figures
Chris Norgren
Gender: Male
The friendly, correct and quiet Chris Norgren is a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, specialised in Baroque and Renaissance art. The tranquility of his work is, however, disturbed by art forgeries as well as murders – including that of his own boss who is found shot dead outside a whorehouse in Frankfurt. Author Aaron Elkins has been praised for his knowledge of art in the handful of books he h...