Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud
Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)
Sample of authors
Boileau, Pierre
Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary...
Literary figures
Milton Milodragovitch
Gender: Male
Like the author James Crumley’s other private detective, C.W. Sughrue, Milton ‘Milo’ Milodragovitch is a private detective in little Meriweather in Montana. He is an alcoholic, middle-aged war veteran, heavily into drugs, and he likes the ladies. Thanks to an inheritance, he can live with no cares, and make himself unpopular with the authorities. He does his detective work with one finger, but he...