Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906
Sample of authors
Hornung, E.W.
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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Literary figures
Hack Bohannon
Gender: Male
A tall, slim private eye and former police officer with black hair like a native American, and who runs a horse ranch in California. His great sorrow is his wife, Linda, who is in a coma at a care home after being brutally raped. In the books by Joseph Hanse, Hack Bohannan is always dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, and he avoids contact with women. In general, he prefers animals rather than...