Sample of authors
Mullen, Thomas
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double m...
Literary figures
Joseph Rouletabille
Gender: Male
He is 18 years old when he solves an ‘impossible crime’ in Gaston Leroux’s classic first detective story. He is actually called Joseph Joséphine, and his father is a master criminal. Joseph Rouletabille is a journalist, but also an amateur detective and even a secret agent in one novel. He is small in stature, but quick-witted and energetic. His marriage with the beautiful Ivana Vilitchkov has an...