Meny
Portrait of Michael Robotham Photo: Fairfax Media via Getty Images (2005)

Sample of authors

Robotham, Michael

Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales, northeast Australia. His father was a teacher and there were plenty of books at home, but Michael preferred outdoor activities. When he was five years old, the family move to a small farming community, Gundagai, and seven years later to Coffs Harbour where Robotham graduated from...

Further reading

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.

Further reading