Sample of authors
Biggers, Earl Derr
Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from Honolulu and a classic character in crime fiction. Although Biggers only wrote six novels about Chan, he has been the subject of some fifty films, one television drama and two television series. New Charlie Chan stories have been written after the author's death by, among others,...
Literary figures
Ed Hunter
Gender: Male
He was 18 years old when his alcoholic father was murdered, which led him to seek out his uncle Am – whose background included working as a private detective. The duo solves the case, and later found their own private detective agency. Edward ‘Ed’ Hunter (sometimes called Eddie) is good-looking, is ambitious and falls helplessly in love with the beautiful women he meets in a suite of highly comme...