Sample of authors
Jesse, F. Tennyson
A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur criminologist. She was known under a few variations of her name – born Wynifried Margaret Jesse, her given name often spelled Winifred. As a journalist, she sometimes called herself Wynifried Margaret Tennyson, though her obituaries mentioned her as Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Har...
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...