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Sample of authors
Ford, Richard
American author born in Jackson, Mississippi. His father, Parker Carrol, was a travelling salesman, which meant that the family often moved homes when Richard was young. His mother, Edna Ford, came from Little Rock, Arkansas. Richard was educated at Davis Elementary School that had also been attended by his idol Eudora Welty. As a child he spent his summer holidays at his grandfather's hotel,...
Literary figures
Jakob Franck
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Jakob Franck in Munich is a pensioner, but the memory of all the murder victims and the despair of their loved ones doesn’t leave him in peace. Since his divorce, he lives alone in a slightly out-of-the-way part of Munich, which is also the home city of author Friedrich Ani. Franck is a loner, but when he is visited by the father of a dead girl, he starts working again w...