Photo: (1952) ANL/REX / TT
Sample of authors
Marquand, John P.
The American author John Phillips Marquand was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents were wealthy, but they lost their fortune in the financial panic of 1907 and were forced to move to Panama – Marquand’s father was a canal engineer – and Marquand was left in the care of his eccentric aunts. He then attended Harvard on a grant, which made him a socially inferior student at the prestigious univ...
Literary figures
Harriet Unwin
Gender: Female
She grew up in a children’s home in Victorian England and was forced to work hard. But the young Harriet Unwin struggles stubbornly until she gets a job as a maid and later as a governess. She also becomes unwillingly involved in some murder cases, described by Evelyn Hervey (pseudonym for H.R.F. Keating), which she solves by methods including pretending to be a detective and a journalist.