Sample of authors
Lockridge, Frances
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...
Literary figures
Mumtaz Hakim
Gender: Female
Her family come from Bangladesh, but she has grown up in London. She became a widow at a young age when her husband – a brutal petty gangster – was murdered in a gang fight, and since then she has lived alone with her teenage step-daughter Shazia. Even though Mumtaz Hakim is a Muslim, and thus wears a veil, she is employed as an assistant by private detective Lee Arnold. The two together are the p...