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Sample of authors
Hoch, Edward D.
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime writer who has managed to make a living for decades from his short stories alone. Although he mainly wrote whodunits with elements of the occult, his whole body of work can be divided into a number of different genres.
Ed Hoch was born in Rochester, New York, where he...
Literary figures
Philo Vance
Gender: Male
Conceited and garrulous but with a very good all-round education, he is an amateur detective featured in a dozen orthodox whodunnits by S.S. Van Dine (pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright). Philo Vance come from a ‘fine’ family, is well educated, very rich, mainly spends his time collecting art etc. and writing scientific articles in various subjects. He is of average height, slim, elegant, wit...