Sample of authors
Green, A.K.
The American author A.K. (Anna Katharine) Green pioneered the crime writing genre, and many of her novels have been translated to foreign languages. She was also among the first women publish write crime novels and the first to publish large editions. Her debut novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878), is a classic and estimated to be one of the major bestsellers of all time. New editions have...
Literary figures
Wick (Wickham) Gore
Gender: Male
The British officer and big-game hunter Wickham Gore comes home after two years in Africa and finds himself involved in a suspected murder – which he solves so elegantly that he subsequently starts up his own detective agency. He is 40+, has a youthful, slim figure, slightly greying hair, a moustache and sparkling eyes. And he is the problem-solver in seven whodunnits by Lynn Brock (pseudonym f...