Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud
Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)
Sample of authors
Boileau, Pierre
Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary...
Literary figures
Andy Blake
Gender: Male
The handsome, quiet antiques dealer Andrew “Andy” Blake is married to the adventurous, beautiful Arabella, or Arab. They are an ill-matched, but happy, couple. Arab is the driving force in a series of entertaining, almost farcical, books by the American author Richard Powell in which the couple fight Nazis and other criminals around the United States.