Sample of authors
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The British author E. (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim achieved great international successes during the first half of the 20th century, and was called ‘the prince of story-tellers’. He wrote in several popular-literature genres, mainly spy and crime stories, but also science fiction, adventure stories and romance. He was born in London, but grew up in the city of Leicester where his father ran a lea...
Literary figures
Merci Rayborn
Gender: Female
Female police detective, based in Orange County in California and featured in a trilogy by T. Jefferson Parker. Merci Rayborn is young, attractive, stubborn and devoted to her work – but is dogged by misfortune. Already in the first book, she makes a mistake which leads to the death of an older colleague – and he is the father of her as-yet-unborn son. As a single mother, she solves crimes where h...