
Sample of authors
Stribling, T.S.
The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had been a military man, his mother came from Alabama where her family owned a property – during his childhood, Stribling often spent his summers there. He was educated at Huntingdon Southern Normal University in Huntingdon, Tennessee, graduating in 1899. He wanted, however, to w...

Theme article
History of crime fiction
By: Johan Wopenka
Literary figures
Jack Butler
Gender: Male
Colonel John ‘Jack’ Butler has a high position in the secret British intelligence service. He has red hair (which is closely cropped), and is a conscientious and patriotic professional. He has three red-haired daughters, but his wife Madeleine Françoise de Latour d’Auray Butler vanished without trace and is presumed dead. Her husband is suspected of having killed her in one of Anthony Price’s spy...