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
George Crowder
Gender: Male
He was a successful prosecutor and politician, but when George Crowder finds out that a man he had got sentenced to death was innocent, he fled from everything to live alone in the forests of Connecticut. He only sees his nephew, twelve-year-old Joey Trimble, who calls him Uncle George. But when necessary he nevertheless turns up and solves murder cases in books by Hugh Pentecost (pseudonym för ...