Sample of authors
Lockridge, Frances
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...
Literary figures
Jonas Mørck
Gender: Male
When the reader first gets to meet him, he is a detective sergeant with the Danish Rejsehold – a sort of Danish FBI – but he gets older in the books by Danish author Poul Ørum, and eventually retires, although he still continues to be involved in murder investigations. Jonas Mørck is a dutiful and conscientious police officer, and after the death of his wife he has a deep understanding for peopl...