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
Anthony Gethryn
Gender: Male
As the only son of an English estate-owner and a Spanish ex-model, dancer etc., the dark-haired, tall Anthony Ruthven Gethryn has a mixed background. He is a colonel in the army, has been a secret agent, but is best known as a ‘gentleman detective’ of the classic English type. Already in author Philip MacDonald’s crime-novel debut, he meets his future wife the independent Lucia.