Sample of authors
Groller, Balduin
At the end of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, Austrian author Adalbert Goldscheider wrote a large number or novels, short stories and comedies under the pseudonym Balduin Groller. The books that received the most attention were the crime short stories about Dagobert Trostler, known as ‘The Sherlock Holmes of Vienna’: In Queen’s Quorum (1951), Ellery Queen lists Trostler as one of t...
Literary figures
Bertha Cool
Gender: Female
Cool is a sturdy woman in her sixties who runs a private detective agency on the fringes of the law. She is a hardboiled lady who smokes, drinks and swears, so she caused some attention when the books about her were launched in the 1930s by A. A. Fair (a pen name used by Erle Stanley Gardner). Her trusted helper is a wiry, sly lawyer called Donald Lam.