Sample of authors
Post, Melville Davisson
Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer to appear after Edgar Allan Poe. Post may even be unique in the sense that he through his books were able to influence the law as he devised plots that exposed weaknesses in current legislation, which led to discussions that in turn resulted in amendments.
Post came from a...
Literary figures
Överkommissarie Hazlerigg
Gender: Male
Although Michael Gilbert wrote six novels and around 20 short stories about Hazlerigg, his first name is never mentioned. Very little at all is known about him, but he was born in Norfolk, started as a patrolling constable in London but was promoted and ended up in Scotland Yard. The good chief inspector is tall and heavily built, has a slightly red complexion, smokes a pipe and is not married – a...