Sample of authors
Collins, Wilkie
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a number of short stories and plays. T.S. Eliot later described his novel The Moonstone (1868) as "the world's first, longest and best detective story". Collins was one of the most popular authors of his time, both at home and abroad. He was close to Charles Dickens and a notorious...
Literary figures
Violet Strange
Gender: Female
Miss Strange is a beautiful, lively, young American woman with a rich father, and who is interested in literature. She has an active social life, but on the quiet is an amateur detective who solves criminal cases she has heard about. The short stories about her by A.K. Green are rather puerile, and Strange behaves like a teenager, but she has been acknowledged as one of the first girl detectives...