Photo: Cristina Cifuentes (2017)CC BY 2.0
Sample of authors
Mendoza, Eduardo
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...
Literary figures
Reggie (Reginald) Fortune
Gender: Male
Doctor and pathologist, often engaged by Scotland Yard. He is a gourmet, and thus somewhat overweight, and looks more like a middle-aged cherub, and he is happily married to actress Joan Amber. But above all, Reginald ‘Reggie’ Fortune is a skilled amateur sleuth who, in books by English writer H.C.Bailey, often helps the weaker party and solves a number of tricky whodunit mysteries.