Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex
Sample of authors
Izner, Claude
Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a bouquiniste, who owned a bookstall on the banks of the Seine and lived with his family in a cheap boarding house on the outskirts of Paris. Liliane, born in 1940, has had a career as a film producer and scriptwriter who changed track as the the French film industry became ...
Literary figures
Gabriel Hanaud
Gender: Male
A.E.W. Mason created his French Sûreté detective inspector as opposite to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Gabriel Hanaud is friendly, well-built and rather plump and has a square face. He speaks English with an entertaining accent. Together with is companion, Ricordo, he solves cases in France as well as England, and is regarded as having been a source of inspiration for writers like Christie and Sim...