Sample of authors
Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her father, Tomas Roberts, was an inventor and sewing machine salesman who committed suicide in 1895, and as a result the family endured long periods of financial distress. Rinehart attended Allegheny High School, graduating in 1893. She trained as a nurse at the Homeopathic Hospital...
Literary figures
Hugh Curtis
Gender: Male
Young, ambitious, newly-employed journalist on the London newspaper The Record. He is charming and has good looks, but nevertheless has problems in his job – especially when he must compete against Mollie Bourne, a beautiful, red-haired star reporter on the competitor The Courier. But they get on well, sometimes cooperating, and create headlines by solving murder cases in three books by Paul S...