Sample of authors
Gaboriau, Émile
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime fiction, Émile Gaboriau has been cited as the father of the crime novel. He was the first to use at least four defining elements of the genre: 1) He wrote briefly and succinctly compared to his contemporaries and his novels are driven by the crime plot. 2) His protagonists are ...
Literary figures
Artie (Arthur Case) Wu
Gender: Male
He is (according to what he claims are reliable sources) the illegitimate heir to the last emperor of China and thus the pretender to the throne. Arhur Case (Artie) Wu, 186 cm tall and weighing 115 kg, is however married and the father of four (two pairs of twins), and thus obliged – together with Quincy Durant to run the company WuDu Ltd, which has made a speciality of fraud and deception. Ross T...